The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation: Imagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780367361549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 176 str.

Hsu, Chia Yin

Opis

This volume provides the first historical examination of how innovations are conceived, marketed, navigated and legitimated from a global perspective that highlights contrasting experiences which range from "projecting" in the Dutch New Netherlands to the checkered success of bitcoin technology.

Spis treści

Part I: Imagining New Markets  1. Dealing with Uncertainty: The Practice of Projecting and the Colony of New Netherland, 1609–1664  2. Looking for New Markets in a Time of Revolution: The U.S. Securities Market, 1789–1804  Part II: Navigating Markets: Strategies and Affects  3. Navigating the Spaces and Places of England’s First Stock Market: Women Investors and Brokers during the Financial Revolution, c. 1690–1730  4. A Criminal Enterprise: Murder, Life Insurance, and the La Pommerais Case in Second Empire France  5. Trust: The Latest Hot Ticket in a Shanghai Bubble  Part III: Controlling Markets: The State and its Discontents  6. An Eighteenth-Century Big Bang? The Liberalization of the Paris Stock Market, 1774–1793  7. Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Distributed Technologies of Trust