{"product_id":"framing-finance-alex-preda-9780226679310","title":"Framing Finance: The Boundaries of Markets and Modern Capitalism","description":"As the banking crisis and its effects on the world economy have made plain, the stock market is of colossal importance to our livelihoods. In \u003ci\u003eFraming Finance\u003c\/i\u003e, Alex Preda looks at the history of the market to figure out how we arrived at a point where investing is not only commonplace, but critical, as market fluctuations threaten our plans to send our children to college or retire comfortably.\u003cp\u003eAs Preda discovers through extensive research, the public was once much more skeptical. For investing to become accepted, a deep-seated prejudice against speculation had to be overcome, and Preda reveals that over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries groups associated with stock exchanges in New York, London, and Paris managed to redefine finance as a scientific pursuit grounded in observational technology. But Preda also notes that as the financial data in which they trafficked became ever more difficult to understand, charismatic speculators emerged whose manipulations of the market undermined the benefits of widespread investment. And so, \u003ci\u003eFraming Finance\u003c\/i\u003e ends with an eye on the future, proposing a system of public financial education to counter the irrational elements that still animate the appeal of finance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Preda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226679314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226679310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2009","brand":"Alex Preda","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086422552831,"sku":"9780226679310","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de18cb75-91ff-4cc4-9274-c2825863d0c7.jpg?v=1769094587","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/framing-finance-alex-preda-9780226679310","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}