Freaks of fortune : the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America

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Freaks of fortune : the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America

Title remainder

the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Levy

Creator

• Levy, Jonathan, 1978-

Author

• Levy, Jonathan, 1978-

Subject

• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Free Enterprise
• Capitalism
• Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Economic history
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• History
• Kapitalismus
• Risiko
• Risk -- Sociological aspects
• Risk-taking (Psychology)
• Risk-taking (Psychology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Social conditions
• USA
• United States
• United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
• United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Wirtschaft
• Risk -- Sociological aspects | History -- 19th century
• 1800-1899

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

"Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions--insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets--while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk's rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one's own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name "financial services industry." Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives."--Publisher's website

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

330.12/2097309034

Index

index present

LC call number

HC105

LC item number

.L48 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography