Banner, Stuart, 1963-

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

KF1070 / B219 2017

346.73/0922