Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Floor Rules
Author: Mark W. GeigerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300280351
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
A compelling account of how markets really govern themselves, and why they often baffle and outrage outsiders One of the reasons many people believe financial markets are lawless and irrational—and rigged—is that they follow two sets of rules. The official rules, set by law or by the heads of the exchanges, exist alongside the unofficial rules, or floor rules—which are the ones that actually govern. Break the official rules and you may be fined or jailed; break the floor rules and you’ll suffer worse: you will be ostracized. Regulations vary across markets, but the floor rules are remarkably consistent. This book, offering compelling stories of market disturbances in which insider rules played a key role, shows readers, without excessive moralizing, how markets really govern themselves. It is a study of the norms, customs, values, and operating modes of the insiders at the center of the financial markets that trade money, stocks, bonds, futures, and other financial derivatives. The core insiders who rule trading markets are a relatively small group who exert disproportionate influence on financial systems. Mark W. Geiger examines the historical roots of the culture of financial markets, describes the role insiders play in today’s high finance, and suggests where this peculiar, ingrown culture is heading in an era of constant technological change.
Annual Report of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago for the Year Ended December 31 ...
Author: Freaks of Fortune
Author: Jonathan LevyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674067207
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions-insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets-while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk's rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one's own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name "financial services industry." Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. 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 Fortuneis one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.
Monthly Labor Review
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
The Industrial Arts Index
Author: Annual Report of Board of Trade of the City of Chicago for the Year Ended December 31 ...
Author: Chicago Board of TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Industrial Arts Index
Author: Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
1921-1942 contain abstracts of periodical reports.