Speculation : a history of the elusive line between gambling and investment /
Stuart Banner.
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017
- x, 335 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The land of speculation -- Betting on prices -- The anti-option era -- Selling blue sky -- Aftershocks of the crash -- Land and onions -- Inside information -- Speculation or investment? -- Deregulation and crisis?.
Stuart Banner's Speculation is a history of the practice and of Americans' fraught efforts to draw the line between "good" investment and "bad" gambling.
9780190623043 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2016016710
Investments--Law and legislation--History.--United States Capital market--Law and legislation--History.--United States Speculation--Law and legislation--History.--United States Speculation--History.--United States