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Ott Julia C. <1974-> |
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When Wall Street met Main Street [[electronic resource] ] : the quest for an investors' democracy / / Julia C. Ott |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Securities industry - United States - History |
Securities - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy -- Chapter One. The Problem with Financial Securities -- Chapter Two. The "Free and Open Market" Responds -- Chapter Three. "Be a Stockholder in Victory!" -- Chapter Four. Mobilizing the Financial Nation -- Chapter five. The Postwar Struggle for the Financial Nation -- Chapter Six. Swords into Shares -- Chapter Seven. The Corporate Quest for Shareholder Democracy -- Chapter Eight. Finance Joins in the Quest for Shareholder Democracy -- Chapter Nine. "The People's Market" -- Epilogue: The Enduring Quest -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. How did financial markets and institutions-commonly perceived as marginal and elitist at the beginning of the twentieth century-come to be seen as the bedrock of American capitalism? How did stock investment-once considered disreputable and dangerous-first become a mass practice?Julia Ott tells the story of how, between the rise of giant industrial corporations and the Crash of 1929, the federal government, corporations, and financial institutions campaigned to universalize investment, with the goal of |
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providing individual investors with a stake in the economy and the nation. As these distributors of stocks and bonds established a broad, national market for financial securities, they debated the distribution of economic power, the proper role of government, and the meaning of citizenship under modern capitalism.By 1929, the incidence of stock ownership had risen to engulf one quarter of American households in the looming financial disaster. Accordingly, the federal government assumed responsibility for protecting citizen-investors by regulating the financial securities markets. By recovering the forgotten history of this initial phase of mass investment and the issues surrounding it, Ott enriches and enlightens contemporary debates over economic reform. |
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UNINA9910816545403321 |
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Solnit Rebecca |
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Savage dreams : a journey into the landscape wars of the American West / / Rebecca Solnit |
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Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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[Twentieth anniversary edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (439 p.) |
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Landscapes - West (U.S.) - History |
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) |
West (U.S.) Description and travel |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION -- Acknowledgments -- From Hell to Breakfast -- Like Moths to a Candle -- April Fool's Day -- Trees -- Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes -- Golden Hours and Iron County -- Ruby Valley and the Ranch -- The War -- Keeping Pace with the Tortoise -- The Rainbow -- Spectators -- Framing the View -- Vanishing (Remaining) -- Fire in the Garden -- The Name of the Snake -- Up the River of Mercy -- Savage's |
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Grave -- Full Circle -- Afterword to the 1999 Edition -- Sources -- Index |
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"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."-Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later-in 1951-and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope. |
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