Navigating failure :bankruptcy and commercial society in Antebellum America
- 作者: Balleisen, Edward J.,
- 出版:
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xv, 322 pages) :illustrations, maps.
- 叢書名: Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state
- 標題: Finance. , Electronic books. , Social mobility. , Social mobility , Social mobility United States -- History -- 19th century. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Finance. , History. , To 1899 , United States , Economic history. , Economic conditions , United States. , United States Economic conditions -- To 1865. , Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi. , Bankruptcy. , Bankruptcy , Bankruptcy United States -- History -- 19th century. , BUSINESS & ECONOMICS , History
- ISBN: 0807875503 , 9780807875506
- ISBN: 9780807826003 , 0807826006 , 9780807849163 , 0807849162
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-309) and index. Introduction: Risk and wreckage in Antebellum America -- Perils of the credit system -- Guises of financial vulnerability -- Dilemmas of failure -- American jubilee -- The art of wrecking -- Fresh starts -- Return to proprietorship -- Sidestepping the credit system -- Epilogue: Individual bankruptcy and the rise of American big business.
- 摘要: Examining the shifting character of American capitalism, this volume explores the economic roots and social meanings of bankruptcy, assessing the impact of widespread insolvency on the evolution of American law, business culture and commercial society.
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- 系統號: 005301201
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The "self-made" man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history. But the relentless expansion of market relations that facilitated such stories of commercial success also ensured that individual bankruptcy would become a prominent feature in the nation's economic landscape. In this ambitious foray into the shifting character of American capitalism, Edward Balleisen explores the economic roots and social meanings of bankruptcy, assessing the impact of widespread insolvency on the evolution of American law, business culture, and commercial society. Balleisen makes innovative use of the rich and previously overlooked court records generated by the 1841 Federal Bankruptcy Act, building his arguments on the commercial biographies of hundreds of failed business owners. He crafts a nuanced account of how responses to bankruptcy shaped two opposing elements of capitalist society in mid-nineteenth-century America--an entrepreneurial ethos grounded in risk taking and the ceaseless search for new markets, new products, and new ways of organizing economic activity, and an urban, middle-class sensibility increasingly averse to the dangers associated with independent proprietorship and increasingly predicated on salaried, white-collar employment.
來源: Google Book
來源: Google Book
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