Populists, Plungers, and Progressives (eBook)

A Social History of Stock and Commodity Speculation, 1868-1932

Cedric B. Cowing (Autor)

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2015
308 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7498-9 (ISBN)

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From market memoirs, newspapers, financial journals, and Congressional records, the author has woven a narrative describing the political, social, and economic adjustment of the American people to the speculative machinery that developed between 1868 and the New Deal. The book begins with the struggle of Populist legislators, representing stable farmers, to win a Congressional ban of future commodity trading. Congress failed to act, but anti-speculation, a characteristic of Populism, remained important. In the Progressive era, the stock market rivaled the commodity exchanges for attention. Criticism of market practices was rampant as stories of Plungers spread, but no halt came until the crash. Then New Deal philosophy favored the Progressive faction of the anti-speculators.Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Amendment • Broker • Calvin Coolidge • Capital Gain • Capitalism • Carter Glass • Charles M. Schwab • Clarence W. Barron • Commodity • communism • Constitutionalism • Corporatocracy • Credit Control • Currency • current history • curtailment • Customer • Daniel Drew • decentralization • dividend • Economics • Edward Douglass White • Edward O. Wolcott • Eminent domain • Emporia Gazette • Expense • Federal Trade Commission • Finance • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Futures contract • Futures exchange • George W. Norris • Goldman • Government bond • Hepburn Act • Herbert Hoover • H. L. Mencken • huey long • income • Inflation • Insurgency • Investor • Jesse L. Livermore • John Bates Clark • John H. Mitchell • John Kenneth Galbraith • John W. Daniel • Joseph L. Bristow • josephus daniels • J. P. Morgan • Legislation • Legislator • Louis C. Fraina • Madison Grant • Margin (finance) • McFadden Act • Money trust • Moral Suasion • Muckraker • Nativism (politics) • Nelson W. Aldrich • Neoclassical Economics • New Class • Nouveau Riche (college) • overproduction • panic of 1907 • Parley P. Christensen • Politician • popular education • Populism • Postmaster General • price change • Price Fixing • Progressive Era • Progressivism in the United States • Pujo Committee • purchasing power • Radicalism (historical) • Rediscount • Republicanism • Return to normalcy • Revaluation • Rotary International • Securities Act of 1933 • Sell-off • Sharper • Smith W. Brookhart • Speculation • Stock exchange • Stock Market • Studebaker • tariff • Tax • tax sale • The Public Interest • The Sovereign State • Thorstein Veblen • War bond • Woodrow Wilson • World War I
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7498-X / 140087498X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7498-9 / 9781400874989