Every man a speculator
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HG4572.F84 Fra
9780066620497
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [617]-683) and index.
Contents: Buccaneers and confidence men on the financial frontier -- Revolution and counterrevolution -- Monsters, aristocrats, and confidence men -- From confidence man to colossus -- Wall Street in Coventry -- The imperial age. -- The engine room of corporate capitalism -- The great Satan -- Wall Street and the decline of Western Civilization -- Wall Street is dead! long live Wall Street! -- Other people's money -- War and peace on Wall Street -- A season in Utopia -- The age of Ignominy. -- Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? -- Evicted from the temple -- The long good-bye -- The world turned upside down. -- The return of the repressed -- Shareholder nation
Contents: Buccaneers and confidence men on the financial frontier -- Revolution and counterrevolution -- Monsters, aristocrats, and confidence men -- From confidence man to colossus -- Wall Street in Coventry -- The imperial age. -- The engine room of corporate capitalism -- The great Satan -- Wall Street and the decline of Western Civilization -- Wall Street is dead! long live Wall Street! -- Other people's money -- War and peace on Wall Street -- A season in Utopia -- The age of Ignominy. -- Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? -- Evicted from the temple -- The long good-bye -- The world turned upside down. -- The return of the repressed -- Shareholder nation
1st Harper Perennial edition
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xxiii, 721 pages ; 21 cm
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Steve Fraser, Every man a speculator (New York : Harper Perennial : 2006, c2005).