The Equity Culture

The Story of the Global Stock Market

Business & Finance, Economics, International Economics, Economic History, Finance & Investing, Investments & Securities
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Author: B. Mark Smith ISBN: 9781466894303
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: August 4, 2015
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: B. Mark Smith
ISBN: 9781466894303
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: August 4, 2015
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

An Expert Chronicle of the Market's Ever-Growing Role Worldwide

The modern stock market, B. Mark Smith's new book makes clear, is only one component of a much broader "equity culture"-a lively and complex international market involving stocks, bonds, mutual funds; joint stock and limited liability corporations; and trading in grain, gold, diamonds, and currency.

The Equity Culture is the story of how that market came about-from shipping magnates banding together in eighteenth-century India to the railroad robber barons of nineteenth-century America to currency traders such as George Soros. Smith's spirited and colorful telling makes two points especially clear: that the equity culture has always been international, with globalization as merely its current phase; and that the equity culture is often surprisingly self-adjusting, with "manias, panics, and crashes" making possible ever greater risk and innovation.

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An Expert Chronicle of the Market's Ever-Growing Role Worldwide

The modern stock market, B. Mark Smith's new book makes clear, is only one component of a much broader "equity culture"-a lively and complex international market involving stocks, bonds, mutual funds; joint stock and limited liability corporations; and trading in grain, gold, diamonds, and currency.

The Equity Culture is the story of how that market came about-from shipping magnates banding together in eighteenth-century India to the railroad robber barons of nineteenth-century America to currency traders such as George Soros. Smith's spirited and colorful telling makes two points especially clear: that the equity culture has always been international, with globalization as merely its current phase; and that the equity culture is often surprisingly self-adjusting, with "manias, panics, and crashes" making possible ever greater risk and innovation.

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