Knight Reading the Market

Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2061-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History

America’s fascination with the stock market dates back to the Gilded Age.

Winner of the BAAS Book Prize of the British Association of American Studies

Americans pay famously close attention to “the market,” obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation.

Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the stock market for a wide audience, Knight shows how ordinary Americans became both emotionally and financially invested in the market. He analyzes popular investment manuals, brokers’ newsletters, newspaper columns, magazine articles, illustrations, and cartoons. He also introduces readers to fiction featuring financial tricksters, which was characterized by themes of personal trust and insider information. The book reveals how the popular culture of the period shaped the very idea of the market as a self-regulating mechanism by making the impersonal abstractions of high finance personal and concrete.

From the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance—and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Regional- und Städtische Wirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Mind the Gap—Why Reputational Risk Matters
Chapter 1: A Reputational Risk Framework
Chapter 2: A Reputational Risk Framework
Chapter 3: Effective Crisis Management Part 1: Getting Ahead of a Crisis
Chapter 4: Effective Crisis Management Part 2: Defining Roles And Responsibilities
Chapter 5: Effective Crisis Management Part 3: From Chaos to Managed Process
Chapter 6: Crisis Communications
Chapter 7: Redefining Issues Management
Chapter 8: The Role of Leadership In Crisis
Chapter 9: Frameworks and Models to Manage Reputational Risk

Über Autor(innen)

Knight, Peter
Peter Knight is a professor of American studies at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to The X Files and The Kennedy Assassination and the coeditor of Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present.