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Virtue, fortune and faith : a genealogy of finance / Marieke de Goede.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 24.Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xxvii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0816644144
  • 9780816644148
  • 0816644152
  • 9780816644155
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.09 22
LOC classification:
  • HG171 .G637 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Money and representation -- A genealogy of finance -- Mastering lady credit -- Finance, gambling, and speculation -- The Dow Jones average and the birth of the financial market -- Regulation and risk in contemporary markets -- Repoliticizing financial practices -- Objectivity and irony in the dot-com bubble -- --
Introduction : money and representation -- 1. A genealogy of finance -- 2. Mastering lady credit -- 3. Finance, gambling, and speculation -- 4. The Dow Jones Average and the birth of the financial market -- 5. Regulation and risk in contemporary markets -- 6. Repoliticizing financial practices -- Conclusion : objectivity and irony in the dot-com bubble.
Summary: 'Virtue, Fortune, and Faith' describes how, in the course of two centuries, finance has changed in the public regard from being a fraud to being the cornerstone of the modern economic system & epitome of scientific respectability.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Money and representation -- A genealogy of finance -- Mastering lady credit -- Finance, gambling, and speculation -- The Dow Jones average and the birth of the financial market -- Regulation and risk in contemporary markets -- Repoliticizing financial practices -- Objectivity and irony in the dot-com bubble -- --

Introduction : money and representation -- 1. A genealogy of finance -- 2. Mastering lady credit -- 3. Finance, gambling, and speculation -- 4. The Dow Jones Average and the birth of the financial market -- 5. Regulation and risk in contemporary markets -- 6. Repoliticizing financial practices -- Conclusion : objectivity and irony in the dot-com bubble.

'Virtue, Fortune, and Faith' describes how, in the course of two centuries, finance has changed in the public regard from being a fraud to being the cornerstone of the modern economic system & epitome of scientific respectability.

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