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  • Investing in Life

    Insurance in Antebellum America

    de Sharon Ann Murphy ...
    Series series Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
    A study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America.Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class.Using the economic instability of the period as her backdrop, Sharon Ann Murphy ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Other People's Money

    How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic

    de Sharon Ann Murphy ...
    Series series How Things Worked
    How the contentious world of nineteenth-century banking shaped the United States.Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies—worth something . . . or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people who could not ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800–1914 Volume 2

    de Timothy Alborn, Sharon Ann Murphy ...
    By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the equivalent of a policy for every man, woman and child, and in Britain it grew from its narrow aristocratic base to cover all social classes. This primary resource collection is the first comparative history of British and American life insurance industries. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

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    Banking on Slavery

    Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

    de Sharon Ann Murphy ...
    Narrado por Auto-narrated ...

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    15 hora 56 minutos

    A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.It’s now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It’s also understood that almost every other institution and aspect of life then was at least entangled with—and often profited from ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Speculation

    A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing

    de Stuart Banner ...
    What is the difference between gambling and speculation? This difficult question has posed a legal problem throughout American history. Many have argued that periodic failures by regulators to differentiate between the two have been the proximate causes of catastrophic economic downturns, including the Great Depression and the 2008 global financial crisis. In Speculation, Stuart Banner provides a ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • America's First Great Depression

    Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837

    de Alasdair Roberts ...
    For a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed with political and social unrest. In America's First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • A Republic No More

    Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption

    de Jay Cost ...
    After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin’s response: A Republic-if you can keep it.”This book argues: we couldn’t keep it.A true republic privileges the common interest above the special interests. To do this, our Constitution established an elaborate system of checks and balances that disperses power among ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Corporation Nation

    de Robert E. Wright ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    From bank bailouts and corporate scandals to the financial panic of 2008 and its lingering effects, corporate governance in America has been wracked by crises. Amid a weakening system of checks and balances in which corporate executives have little incentive to protect shareholder interests, U.S. corporations are growing larger and more irresponsible at the same time. But dependence on corporate ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Panic of 1819

    Reactions and Policies

    de Murray N. Rothbard ...
    The Panic of 1819 was America's first great economic crisis. And this is Rothbard's masterful account, the first full scholarly book on the topic and still the most definitive. Rothbard tells the story about a disaster that could not be attributed to some specific government blunder or disaster. It seemed to originate from within the economic system itself. Its cause was not obvious to observers ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States

    de Clement Juglar ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Banking Modern America

    Studies in regulatory history

    Edición de Jesse Stiller ...
    Series series Financial History
    The passage of the National Currency Act of 1863 gave the United States its first uniform paper money, its first nationally chartered and supervised commercial banks, and its first modern regulatory agency: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The law marked a milestone in the development of the U.S. financial system and the modern administrative state. Yet its importance has been ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Modern Corporation and Private Property

    de Gardiner Means ...
    This monumental work on the corporation is one of those enduring classics that many cite but few have read. Graced with a new introduction by Weidenbaum and Jensen, this new edition makes this classic available to a new generation. Written in the early 1930s, The Modern Corporation and Private Property remains the fundamental introduction to the internal organization of the corporation in modern ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD