Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science

by Marc Flandreau

Book Overview

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentleman-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned society, showing that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022636044X
• ISBN13: 9780226360447
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"