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Author Heinemann, Kieran, author

Title Playing the market : retail investment and speculation in twentieth-century Britain / Kieran Heinemann
Edition First edition
Published New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 266 pages)
Summary This book explores the distinctively British obsession with investment and speculation. It explains how and why everyday British people increasingly invested, speculated, and gambled in stocks and shares from the outbreak of World War I, over the postwar decades and the Thatcher years, up until the premiership of Tony Blair
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed November 18, 2021)
Subject Investments -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Stock exchanges -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Economic history
Investments
Stock exchanges
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056676
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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