Catalog - The City Library

Displaying 1 of 1

2012

Format:	Book
Author:	Levy, Jonathan, 1978-
Title:	Freaks of fortune : the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America / Jonathan Levy.
Publisher, Date:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Description:	414 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:	Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives."--Pub. desc.
Subjects:	Capitalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Risk -- Sociological aspects -- History -- 19th century. Risk-taking (Psychology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century. United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	The assumption of risk -- The perils of the seas -- The actuarial science of freedom -- The failure of the freedman's bank -- Betting the farm -- Fraternity in the age of capital -- Trading the future -- The trust question.
LCCN:	2012014805
ISBN:	9780674736351 0674736354 9780674047488 0674047486
Other Number:	789661554
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	342195
# Local items in:	1
# System items in:	1
Call Number:	330.122 Levy

Availability

Map It

Displaying 1 of 1