The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation : Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present PDF
Edited by Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, Erika Vause
Part of the Routledge Studies in Cultural History series
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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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- Pages:184 pages, 1 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/09/2020
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:184 pages, 1 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/09/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781000195736
