Americans pay famously close attention to -the market, - obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuation. In Reading the Market, Peter Knight explores the Gilded Age origins and development of this peculiar interest. He tracks the historic shift in market operations from local to national while examining how present-day ideas about the nature of markets are tied to past genres of financial representation.
Drawing on the late nineteenth-century explosion of art, literature, and media, which sought to dramatize the workings of the...
Americans pay famously close attention to -the market, - obsessively watching trends, patterns, and swings and looking for clues in every fluctuati...
From the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange between 1870 and 1915 changed how Americans understood finance-and explains what our pervasive interest in Wall Street says about us now.
From the rise of ticker-tape technology to the development of conspiracy theories, Reading the Market argues that commentary on the Stock Exchange bet...
