{"product_id":"9781466894303","title":"The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Expert Chronicle of the Market's Ever-Growing Role Worldwide\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe modern stock market, B. Mark Smith's new book makes clear, is only one component of a much broader \"equity culture\"-a lively and complex international market involving stocks, bonds, mutual funds; joint stock and limited liability corporations; and trading in grain, gold, diamonds, and currency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Equity Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how that market came about-from shipping magnates banding together in eighteenth-century India to the railroad robber barons of nineteenth-century America to currency traders such as George Soros. Smith's spirited and colorful telling makes two points especially clear: that the equity culture has always been international, with globalization as merely its current phase; and that the equity culture is often surprisingly self-adjusting, with \"manias, panics, and crashes\" making possible ever greater risk and innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158812049648,"sku":"9781466894303","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466894303_p0.jpg?v=1763688015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466894303","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}