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Wall Street : America's dream palace /
Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street a bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad ambition? This book re...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Icons of America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street a bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad ambition? This book recounts the colorful history of America's love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Historian Steve Fraser frames his analysis around the roles of four iconic Wall Street types--the aristocrat, the confidence man, the hero, and the immoralist--all recurring figures who yield surprising insights about how the nation has wrestled, and still wrestles, with fundamental questions of wealth and work, democracy and elitism, greed and salvation.--From publisher description. |
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| Notas: | Series from jacket. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300145083 030014508X 0300117558 9780300117554 1282088629 9781282088627 1282352172 9781282352179 9786612352171 6612352175 9786612088629 6612088621 |