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A History of the Global Stock Market

From Ancient Rome to Silicon Valley

By: B. Mark Smith

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A History of the Global Stock Market

From Ancient Rome to Silicon Valley

By: B. Mark Smith

Resource added for the Financial Institutions Management program 101144.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226764044

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Toward Rational Exuberance

The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market

By: B. Mark Smith

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Toward Rational Exuberance

The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market

By: B. Mark Smith

The True History, and Dangerous Myths, of the Modern Stock Market. The stock market is big news now, influencing every aspect of the modern economy. Accepted wisdom has it that the market will provide retirement security for anyone willing to diligently save and invest. Yet many people can remember a time when the stock market was little more than a primitive insiders' game, viewed by most Americans with skepticism and suspicion. In Toward Rational Exuberance, B. Mark Smith, a professional stock trader with two decades of practical experience, tells the fascinating story of how this stunning transformation occurred. Smith traces the evolution of popular theories of stock market behavior, showing how they have become widely accepted over time. He also clarifies some of these theories -- such as the notion that the market is often susceptible to speculative "bubbles" that will inevitably burst -- and explains how they are based on faulty interpretations of market history. The central thesis of Toward Rational Exuberance is that the modern stock market is the product of a dynamic evolutionary process; it cannot be predicted by extrapolating arbitrary historical standards into the future. It is only by understanding the way the modern market has been created that today's investor can begin to understand the market itself.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429930888

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9781429930888

The Equity Culture

The Story of the Global Stock Market

By: B. Mark Smith

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The Equity Culture

The Story of the Global Stock Market

By: B. Mark Smith

An Expert Chronicle of the Market's Ever-Growing Role Worldwide The modern stock market, B. Mark Smith's new book makes clear, is only one component of a much broader "equity culture"-a lively and complex international market involving stocks, bonds, mutual funds; joint stock and limited liability corporations; and trading in grain, gold, diamonds, and currency. The Equity Culture is the story of how that market came about-from shipping magnates banding together in eighteenth-century India to the railroad robber barons of nineteenth-century America to currency traders such as George Soros. Smith's spirited and colorful telling makes two points especially clear: that the equity culture has always been international, with globalization as merely its current phase; and that the equity culture is often surprisingly self-adjusting, with "manias, panics, and crashes" making possible ever greater risk and innovation.

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146689430X

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A History of the Global Stock Market

A History of the Global Stock Market

Toward Rational Exuberance

Toward Rational Exuberance

The Equity Culture

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