Showing posts with label economic history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economic history. Show all posts

Monday, 19 January 2009

The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry


Lawrence E. Mitchell (Berrett-Koehler Publishers)


An insight into the origins of the giant modern corporation and the rise of the stock market in the first years of the twentieth century: by the early 1920s, the stock market had left behind its business origins and was the centre of the American economy.
 
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