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050	1	4	_aHC 105 _bL668f 2012
082	0	0	_a330.12/2097309034
100	1		_aLevy, Jonathan, _d1978- _925222
245	1	0	_aFreaks of fortune : _bthe emerging world of capitalism and risk in America / _cJonathan Levy.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c2012.
300			_a414 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe assumption of risk -- The perils of the seas -- The actuarial science of freedom -- The failure of the freedman's bank -- Betting the farm -- Fraternity in the age of capital -- Trading the future -- The trust question.
520			_a"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 Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives."
650		0	_aCapitalism _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aCapitalismo _xHistoria _zEstados Unidos _ySiglo XIX _94122
650		0	_aRisk _xSociological aspects _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aSociología del riesgo _925798
650		0	_aRisk-taking (Psychology) _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xEconomic conditions _y19th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial conditions _y19th century.
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xCondiciones económicas _ySiglo XIX _91552
651		4	_aEstados Unidos _xCondiciones sociales _ySiglo XIX _92135
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