Reading the Market : Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America /

Americans pay famously close attention to "the market", obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift...

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Main Author: Knight, Peter, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
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