The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market Book

An Expert Chronicle of the Marketâ??s Ever-Growing Role WorldwideThe modern stock market, B. Mark Smithâ??s new book makes clear, is only one component of a much broader â??equity cultureâ?â??a lively and complex international market involving stocks, bonds, mutual funds; joint stock and limited liability corporations; and trading in grain, gold, diamonds, and currency.The Equity Culture is the story of how that market came aboutâ??from shipping magnates banding together in eighteenth-century India to the railroad robber barons of nineteenth-century America to currency traders such as George Soros. Smithâ??s spirited and colorful telling makes two points especially clear: that the equity culture has always been international, with globalization as merely its current phase; and that the equity culture is often surprisingly self-adjusting, with â??manias, panics, and crashesâ? making possible ever greater risk and innovation.Read More