Invested - How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money,

"As more people than ever invest in the stock market, many feel a profound need for professional advice about it. Yet a financial adviser generally has no idea what's going to happen. The 300-year history of everyday financial advice in the capitalist world--encompassing eighteenth-century domestic advice manuals; Gilded Age swindles; market crashes; the boom in self-help rhetoric; and TV shoutfests--is one of dart throwing, brazen hucksterism, and serial failure. It spans the Atlantic and is ultimately a cultural history of rhetoric and imagination, not rationality. Remarkably, the authors of this book conclude advice aims less to guide investors toward financial returns than to create a kind of citizen, one who assumes others' risks, monetizes the future, and becomes in themselves a kind of investment"--

About the author

Paul Crosthwaite is professor of English at the University of Edinburgh.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Crosthwaite, Paul Knight Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Helen Paul, Paul Helen, James Taylor, Taylor James
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780226821009
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82100-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; HISTORY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Investment and securities, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise & Capitalism, Stocks & Shares