This book explores the distinctively British obsession with investment and speculation. It explains how and why everyday British people increasingly invested, speculated, and gambled in stocks and shares from the outbreak of World War I, over the postwar decades and the Thatcher years, up until the premiership of Tony Blair.
This book explores the distinctively British obsession with investment and speculation. It explains how and why everyday British people increasingly invested, speculated, and gambled in stocks and shares from the outbreak of World War I, over the postwar decades and the Thatcher years, up until the premiership of Tony Blair.
Kieran Heinemann read History in Berlin and Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in 2017. He now lives and works in Stockholm. His articles have been published in Twentieth Century British History, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, and Archiv für Sozialgeschichte.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Bucket Shops and Outside Brokers 2: The Stock Market Game in Postwar Britain 3: The Financial Press and the Investing Public 4: The Politics of Wider Share Ownership 5: The Profit Motive: Inflation and Private Investment in the 1970s 6: Popular Capitalism? Bibliography
Introduction 1: Bucket Shops and Outside Brokers 2: The Stock Market Game in Postwar Britain 3: The Financial Press and the Investing Public 4: The Politics of Wider Share Ownership 5: The Profit Motive: Inflation and Private Investment in the 1970s 6: Popular Capitalism? Bibliography
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