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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
The American Catalogue
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Freaks of Fortune
Author: Jonathan Levy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067207
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 Fortuneis one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067207
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 Fortuneis one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.
The Knights of Pythias Complete Manual and Text-book ...
Author: John Van Valkenburg
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The American Catalogue ...
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year...
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
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Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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The American Catalogue ... July 1, 1876-Dec. 31, 1910
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Hoping to avoid the worry of caring for a valuable object, Miss Teaberry gives away the locket her cat finds in the garden, only to find herself enmeshed in a situation of escalating chaos.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Hoping to avoid the worry of caring for a valuable object, Miss Teaberry gives away the locket her cat finds in the garden, only to find herself enmeshed in a situation of escalating chaos.
The American Catalog
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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