Men, women, and money: perspectives on gender, wealth, and investment 1850-1930

There has been considerable research into the growth of limited companies in Great Britain in the nineteenth century, but not much is known about their investors, both men and women. This interdisciplinary book, based on new research, investigates the identity and behaviour of these investors. INDICE: 1: David R. Green, Josephine Maltby, Alastair Owens and Janette Rutterford: Introduction; 2: Youssef Cassis: Wealth, Investment and Global Finance: International Financial Centres, 1870-1930; 3: Leslie Hannah: The Shareholder's <'Dog>' that did not Bark: The History of British Contested Takeover Bids in Comparative Perspective; 4: Ranald Michie: Gamblers, Fools, Victims or Wizards? The British Investor in the Public Mind, 1850- 1930; 5: William D. Rubinstein: The Wealth Structure of Britain in 1809-39, 1860-61 and 1906; 6: DavidR. Green and Alastair Owens: Assets of the Dead: Wealth and Investment in Late Nineteenth-Century England and Wales; 7: Martin Shanahan: Colonial Sisters and Their Wealth: The Wealth Holdings of Women in South Australia, 1875-1915; 8: Livio Di Matteo: Wealth and Gender in Ontario: 1870-1930; 9: Mary Beth Combs: They Lived and Saved: Examining the Savings Motives of Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1860-1890; 10: Graeme G. Acheson and John D. Turner: Shareholder Liability, Risk Aversion, and Investment Returns in Nineteenth-Century British Banking; 11: Josephine Maltby and Jannette Rutterford: The Evidence for 'Democratisation' of Share Ownership in Great Britain in the Early Twentieth Century

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959376-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés