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Author De Goede, Marieke

Title Virtue, Fortune, and Faith : a Genealogy of Finance
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
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Contents Preface; Introduction: Money and Representation; 1. A Genealogy of Finance; 2. Mastering Lady Credit; 3. Finance, Gambling, and Speculation; 4. The Dow Jones Average and the Birth of the Financial Market; 5. Regulation and Risk in Contemporary Markets; 6. Repoliticizing Financial Practices; Conclusion: Objectivity and Irony in the Dot-Com Bubble; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary A cultural history of financial markets from the early eighteenth century to the present day, Virtue, Fortune, and Faith offers a reading of the historical insecurities, debates, and controversies that were purged from nascent credit practices in order to produce the image of today's global financial sphere. Marieke de Goede questions assumptions about international finance's unchallenged position and exposes its ambiguous scientific authority
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-227) and index
Notes English
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Subject Economics -- History.
Finance -- History
Money -- History
Value -- History
Speculation -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Economics
Finance
Money
Speculation
Value
Culturele aspecten.
Financiƫn.
Markteconomie.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004022501
ISBN 9780816696345
0816696349