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When Wall Street met Main Street : the quest for an investors' democracy / Julia C. Ott.

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The financial crisis of 2008 made Americans keenly aware of the impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. Ott shows how the government, corporations, and financial institutions transformed stock investment from an elite to a mass practice at the beginning of...

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Main Author: Ott, Julia C., 1974- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
New York Stock Exchange > History.
Securities industry > United States > History.
Securities > United States > History.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) > History.
New York Stock Exchange.
Securities.
Securities industry.
New York (State) > New York > Wall Street.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the quest for an investors' democracy
  • The problem with financial securities
  • The "free and open market" responds
  • "Be a stockholder in victory!"
  • Mobilizing the financial nation
  • The postwar struggle for the financial nation
  • Swords into shares
  • The corporate quest for shareholder democracy
  • Finance joins the quest for shareholder democracy
  • "The people's market"
  • Epilogue : the enduring quest.

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