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Investment : a history /
Investing--the commitment of resources to achieve a return--affects individuals, families, companies, and nations, and has done so throughout history. Yet until the sixteenth century, investing was a privilege of only the elite classes. The story behind the democratization of investing is bound up w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Columbia Business School Publishing
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the investment challenge
- A privilege of the power elite
- The democratization of investment : joint-stock companies, the Industrial Revolution, and public markets
- Retirement and its funding
- New clients and new investments
- Fraud, market manipulation and insider trading
- Progress in managing cyclical crises
- The emergence of investment theory
- More new investment forms
- Innovation creates a new elite
- Conclusion : investment in the twenty-first century.