The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation
Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2020
184 pages
978-1-000-19573-6 (ISBN)
Description
How did "innovation" become something to strive for, an end in itself? And how did "the market" come to be thought of as the space of innovation? This edited volume provides the first historical examination of how innovations are conceived, marketed, navigated and legitimated from a global perspective that highlights contrasting experiences. These experiences include: colonial "projecting" in the Dutch New Netherlands, trust networks in the early US securities market, female investors during the Financial Revolution, life insurance in nineteenth-century France, "bubbles" and trusts in 1920s Shanghai, government regulation of the pre-Revolutionary stock market and the checkered success of today's bit-coin technology. By discussing these diverse contexts together, this volume provides a pathbreaking reconsideration of market and business activities in light of both the techniques and the emotional vectors that infuse them.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-19573-6 (9781000195736)
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Chia Yin Hsu | Thomas M. Luckett | Erika Vause
The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation
Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
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Chia Yin Hsu | Thomas M. Luckett | Erika Vause
The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation
Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Book
09/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€205.20
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Chia Yin Hsu is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University, USA.
Thomas M. Luckett is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University, USA.
Erika Vause is an Assistant Professor of European History at St. John's University, USA.
Thomas M. Luckett is Associate Professor of History at Portland State University, USA.
Erika Vause is an Assistant Professor of European History at St. John's University, USA.
Content
Part I: Imagining New Markets 1. Dealing with Uncertainty: The Practice of Projecting and the Colony of New Netherland, 1609-1664 2. Looking for New Markets in a Time of Revolution: The U.S. Securities Market, 1789-1804 Part II: Navigating Markets: Strategies and Affects 3. Navigating the Spaces and Places of England's First Stock Market: Women Investors and Brokers during the Financial Revolution, c. 1690-1730 4. A Criminal Enterprise: Murder, Life Insurance, and the La Pommerais Case in Second Empire France 5. Trust: The Latest Hot Ticket in a Shanghai Bubble Part III: Controlling Markets: The State and its Discontents 6. An Eighteenth-Century Big Bang? The Liberalization of the Paris Stock Market, 1774-1793 7. Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Distributed Technologies of Trust
