The Allure of Capitalism

<p> The managerial revolution or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions. Studying transnational or global corporate management at the post-millennium moment provides a suitable focal point from which to investigate globalized (post)modernity and capitalism especially and as such this book offers an anthropology of global capitalism at its moment of crisis. This study provides ethnographically rich descriptions of managerial practices in a set of international corporate investment projects. Drawing also on historical and statistical data it renders a comprehensive perspective on management corporations and capitalism in the late modern globalized economy. Cross-disciplinary in outlook the book spans the fields of organization business and management and asserts that now in this period of financial crisis is the time for anthropology to yet again engage with political economy.</p>