Author: Ancient Order of United Workmen. Supreme LodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Digest of the Constitutions, Laws and Decisions of the Ancient Order of United Workmen
Author: Ancient Order of United Workmen. Supreme LodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Freaks of Fortune
Author: Jonathan LevyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071123
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Until the early nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. 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.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 to [1911]
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Author: Edmund Samson GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887-[1911], Contained in the American State Reports, Volumes 1 to [140], Inclusive, and of the Notes to the Cases Reported Therein: Abandonment to Eviction
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Author: Edmund Samson GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
Abbott's Cyclopedic Digest of All the Decisions of All the Courts of New York from the Earlist Time to the Year 1900
Author: De Witt Clinton BlashfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States
Author: Edmund Samson GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1510
Book Description
Digest of All Reported Cases Decided by All Federal and Provincial Courts of Canada, and by the Privy Council on Appeal Therefrom and Including Dominion Law Reports Vols. 1 to 50 Inclusive During the Years 1911 to January 1, 1920
Author: Chester E. T. FitzgeraldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Abbott's Digest of All the New York Reports ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of the State of Pennsylvania Brought Down to November, 1895 ...
Author: Frank Frederick BrightlyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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