When Wall Street met Main Street
Subtitle: the quest for an investors' democracy
By: Julia C. Ott
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780674050655
Subjects: Securities; Wall Street (New York, N.Y.); History; New York Stock Exchange; Securities industry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the quest for an investors' democracy; title: The problem with financial securities; title: The "free and open market" responds; title: "Be a stockholder in victory!"; title: Mobilizing the financial nation; title: The postwar struggle for the financial nation; title: Swords into shares; title: The corporate quest for shareholder democracy; title: Finance joins the quest for shareholder democracy; title: "The people's market"; title: Epilogue : the enduring quest.