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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Hauptverfasser: Crosthwaite, Paul 1980- (VerfasserIn), Knight, Peter 1968- (VerfasserIn), Marsh, Nicky 1972- (VerfasserIn), Paul, Helen J. 1975- (VerfasserIn), Taylor, James 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago ; London The University of Chicago Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:382 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780226820989
9780226821009