Pop Finance: Investment Clubs and the New Investor Populism

by Brooke Harrington

Book Overview

During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans. Pop Finance follows the trajectory of this new market populism via the rise of investment clubs, through which millions of people across the socioeconomic spectrum became investors for the first time. As sociologist Brooke Harrington shows, these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691145865
• ISBN13: 9780691145860
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.9"