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
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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
- Subject
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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- bibliography
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