Investment: A History / / Jesse Downing, Norton Reamer.
Investing-the commitment of resources to achieve a return-affects individuals, families, companies, and nations, and has done so throughout history. Yet until the sixteenth century, investing was a privilege of only the elite classes. The story behind the democratization of investing is bound up wit...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Business School Publishing
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. A Privilege of the Power Elite
- Chapter Two. The Democratization of Investment
- Chapter Three. Retirement and Its Funding
- Chapter Four. New Clients and New Investments
- Chapter Five. Fraud, Market Manipulation, and Insider Trading
- Chapter six. Progress in Managing Cyclical Crises
- Chapter Seven. The Emergence of Investment Theory
- Chapter Eight. More New Investment Forms
- Chapter Nine. Innovation Creates a New Elite
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index