Visionary Capitalism: Financial Markets and the American Dream in the Twentieth Century

by Charles R. Geisst

This groundbreaking new work presents the first financial history of the United States in the 20th century from the commercial and investment banking perspective. The author traces the development of both industries from the 1920s through the conditions of the present marketplace and looks at the simultaneous development of the federal regulatory agencies that grew up around the financial markets. Arguing that the ideal of an American Dream finds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275932834
• ISBN13: 9780275932831
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"