Invested : how three centuries of stock market advice reshaped our money, markets, and minds /
"As more people than ever invest in the stock market, many feel a profound need for professional advice about it. Yet a financial adviser generally has no idea what's going to happen. The 300-year history of everyday financial advice in the capitalist world--encompassing eighteenth-century...
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The University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago, IL : |
Publication Dates: | 2022. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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"As more people than ever invest in the stock market, many feel a profound need for professional advice about it. Yet a financial adviser generally has no idea what's going to happen. The 300-year history of everyday financial advice in the capitalist world--encompassing eighteenth-century domestic advice manuals; Gilded Age swindles; market crashes; the boom in self-help rhetoric; and TV shoutfests--is one of dart throwing, brazen hucksterism, and serial failure. It spans the Atlantic and is ultimately a cultural history of rhetoric and imagination, not rationality. Remarkably, the authors of this book conclude advice aims less to guide investors toward financial returns than to create a kind of citizen, one who assumes others' risks, monetizes the future, and becomes in themselves a kind of investment"-- |
Carrier Form: | 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780226821009 0226821005 9780226820989 022682098X |
Index Number: | HG4516 |
CLC: | F830.59-09 |
Call Number: | F830.59-09/C951 |
Contents: | Introduction : three centuries of financial advice -- Making the market (1720-1800) -- Navigating the market (1800-1870) -- Playing the market (1870-1910) -- Chartists and fundamentalists (1910-1950) -- Domestic budgets and efficient markets (1950-1990) -- Gurus and robots (1990-2020) -- Conclusion : investing through the crisis. |