100 years of wall street /
Geisst, Charles R.
100 years of wall street / One hundred years of Wall Street / - New York : McGraw-Hill, c2000. - xxvii, 178 p. :ill,
Includes index.
Geisst takes the reader behind the scenes to explain how powerful personalities and unexpected developments created the financial, cultural and social events that helped shape our world. We are the heirs of Wall Street's phenomenal achievement, but it has also fueled runaway greed. It has contributed to growth while scrapping large sectors of the economy. Is the market "fair" or "just"? What do such questions really mean? Geisst dramatically brings to life a world that can only be fully understood by following its secret deals, monumental transactions, colorful characters, earth-rattling market collapses and exhilarating highs.
0071356193 9780071356190
New York (State)--New York--Wall Street.
New York Stock Exchange.
Securities industry.
United States.
HG4572 / .G38 2000
332.64'273 / GEI
100 years of wall street / One hundred years of Wall Street / - New York : McGraw-Hill, c2000. - xxvii, 178 p. :ill,
Includes index.
Geisst takes the reader behind the scenes to explain how powerful personalities and unexpected developments created the financial, cultural and social events that helped shape our world. We are the heirs of Wall Street's phenomenal achievement, but it has also fueled runaway greed. It has contributed to growth while scrapping large sectors of the economy. Is the market "fair" or "just"? What do such questions really mean? Geisst dramatically brings to life a world that can only be fully understood by following its secret deals, monumental transactions, colorful characters, earth-rattling market collapses and exhilarating highs.
0071356193 9780071356190
New York (State)--New York--Wall Street.
New York Stock Exchange.
Securities industry.
United States.
HG4572 / .G38 2000
332.64'273 / GEI