When Wall Street Met Main Street : : The Quest for an Investors' Democracy /

When Wall Street Met Main Street : : The Quest for an Investors' Democracy / / Julia C. Ott.

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The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. How did financial markets and institutions-commonly perceived as marginal and elitist at the beginning of the twentieth century-c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
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Ott, Julia C.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (347 p.) :; 29 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Quest for an Investors' Democracy
  • Chapter One. The Problem with Financial Securities
  • Chapter Two. The "Free and Open Market" Responds
  • Chapter Three. "Be a Stockholder in Victory!"
  • Chapter Four. Mobilizing the Financial Nation
  • Chapter five. The Postwar Struggle for the Financial Nation
  • Chapter Six. Swords into Shares
  • Chapter Seven. The Corporate Quest for Shareholder Democracy
  • Chapter Eight. Finance Joins in the Quest for Shareholder Democracy
  • Chapter Nine. "The People's Market"
  • Epilogue: The Enduring Quest
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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