Table of Contents: Spectacular speculation

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Staheli, Urs, 1966-
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors:	Savoth, Eric.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English German
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Speculation > United States > History. Speculation > History. Finance > Social aspects > United States > History. Finance > Social aspects > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

Gambling and speculation : entertaining contingency?
The normalization of "wild contingency" : stabilizing the distinction between gambling and speculation
Charles Mackay : the spectacle of equality
Speculative vistas : crowds and speculation in the USA during the nineteenth century
Alone against the crowd : the communicative techniques of the contrarians
The eroticism of the market and the gender of speculation
The rhythm of the market.