Freaks of Fortune
Subtitle: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America
By: Jonathan Levy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780674047488
Subjects: Risk-taking (Psychology); Economic conditions; Risk; Social conditions; History; Capitalism
Description: Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The assumption of risk; title: The perils of the seas; title: The actuarial science of freedom; title: The failure of the freedman's bank; title: Betting the farm; title: Fraternity in the age of capital; title: Trading the future; title: The trust question.