Pop Finance : : Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism /

Pop Finance : : Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism / / Brooke Harrington.

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During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans. Pop Finance follows the trajectory of this new market populism via the rise of investment clubs, throug...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Harrington, Brooke,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2008
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 7 halftones. 1 line illus. 23 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • SECTION ONE. Investment Clubs and the "Ownership Society"
  • Introduction
  • 1. Stock Market Populism Investment Clubs and Economic History
  • 2. Investment Clubs as Markets in Microcosm
  • SECTION TWO. Cash and Social Currency: Performance in Investment Clubs
  • Introduction
  • 3. Group Composition and the Business Case for Diversity
  • 4. Getting Ahead versus Getting Along Decision Making in Investment Clubs
  • SECTION THREE. Aftermath and Implications
  • Introduction
  • 5. Reflections on Investing in the 1990s
  • 6. Implications and Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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