Title The speculation economy : how finance triumphed over industry / Lawrence E. Mitchell. [O'Reilly electronic resource]

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 395 pages)
	data file
Series	A BK currents book
	BK currents book.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-377) and index.
Contents	The principle of cooperation -- Sanctuary -- Transcendental value -- The new property -- The complex whole -- Much ado about nothing -- Panic and progress -- The speculation economy -- The end of reform -- Manufacturing securities.
Summary	Mitchell explains why American businesses today are obsessed with the price of their stock. The author identifies the moment in American history when finance triumphed over industry, and shows how the birth of the giant modern corporation spurred the rise of the stock market.
Language	This edition in English.
Subject	Industries -- United States.
	Corporations -- United States.
	Finance -- United States.
	Speculation -- United States.
	United States -- Economic policy.
	Spéculation -- États-Unis.
	États-Unis -- Politique économique.
	Corporations
	Economic policy
	Finance
	Industries
	Speculation
	United States
	Großbetrieb
	Wirtschaftsordnung
	USA
Chronological Term	Geschichte.
Other Form:	Print version: Mitchell, Lawrence E. Speculation economy. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2008 9781576756287 (OCoLC)221141492
ISBN	9781605093864 (electronic bk.)
	1605093866 (electronic bk.)
	9781609944483 (electronic bk.)
	1609944488 (electronic bk.)
	1282300539
	9781282300538
	9786612300530
	6612300531

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