Reading the market :
Knight, Peter, 1968-
Reading the market : genres of financial capitalism in gilded age America / Peter Knight. - 1 online resource - New studies in American intellectual and cultural history . - New studies in American intellectual and cultural history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Market reports -- Reading the ticker tape -- Picturing the market -- Confidence games and inside information -- Conspiracy and the invisible hand of the market -- Epilogue.
Americans pay famously close attention to ""the market, "" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation. Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a.
9781421420615 1421420619 1421420619
Umschulungswerkst�atten f�ur Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
1800-1999
Finance--History--United States--19th century.
Finance--History--United States--20th century.
Journalism, Commercial--History.--United States
Capitalism and literature--History.--United States
Finance in literature.
Finance in art.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Finance.
Capitalism and literature.
Finance.
Finance in art.
Finance in literature.
Journalism, Commercial.
Finanzierung
Kapitalismus
Wirtschaftspublizistik
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
HG181 / .K63 2016eb
332.0973/09034
Reading the market : genres of financial capitalism in gilded age America / Peter Knight. - 1 online resource - New studies in American intellectual and cultural history . - New studies in American intellectual and cultural history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Market reports -- Reading the ticker tape -- Picturing the market -- Confidence games and inside information -- Conspiracy and the invisible hand of the market -- Epilogue.
Americans pay famously close attention to ""the market, "" obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation. Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a.
9781421420615 1421420619 1421420619
Umschulungswerkst�atten f�ur Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
1800-1999
Finance--History--United States--19th century.
Finance--History--United States--20th century.
Journalism, Commercial--History.--United States
Capitalism and literature--History.--United States
Finance in literature.
Finance in art.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Finance.
Capitalism and literature.
Finance.
Finance in art.
Finance in literature.
Journalism, Commercial.
Finanzierung
Kapitalismus
Wirtschaftspublizistik
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
HG181 / .K63 2016eb
332.0973/09034