When Wall Street met Main Street : the quest for an investors' democracy /
The financial crisis of 2008 made Americans keenly aware of the impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. Ott shows how the government, corporations, and financial institutions transformed stock investment from an elite to a mass practice at the beginning of...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2011.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the quest for an investors' democracy
- The problem with financial securities
- The "free and open market" responds
- "Be a stockholder in victory!"
- Mobilizing the financial nation
- The postwar struggle for the financial nation
- Swords into shares
- The corporate quest for shareholder democracy
- Finance joins the quest for shareholder democracy
- "The people's market"
- Epilogue : the enduring quest.