Author: Knights of Honor. Supreme Lodge
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Category : Fraternal insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Honor
Author: Knights of Honor. Supreme Lodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fraternal insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Publisher:
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Category : Fraternal insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Official Record of Proceedings of ... Convention of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias
Author: Knights of Pythias. Supreme Lodge
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Freaks of Fortune
Author: Jonathan Levy
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Proceedings at the Annual Session
Author: International Order of Good Templars. Vermont. Grand Lodge
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
Author: Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois
Author: Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Illinois
Publisher:
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Category : Secret societies
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Category : Secret societies
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Bar Association
Author: Alabama State Bar Association
Publisher:
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Publisher:
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Bar Association
Author: Alabama State Bar Association. Meeting
Publisher:
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Publisher:
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Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting
Author: Associated Fraternities of America
Publisher:
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Category : Fraternal organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fraternal organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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