A Nation of Small Shareholders: Marketing Wall Street After World War II

by Janice M Traflet and Janice M. Traflet

Book Overview

How New York Stock Exchange leaders in the decades after the Great Crash of 1929 helped popularize equity investing.

Immediately after the frightening Great Crash of 1929, many Americans swore they would "never" or "never again" become involved in the stock market. Yet hordes of Americans eventually did come to embrace equity investing, to an extent actually far greater than the level of popular involvement in the market during the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142140902X
• ISBN13: 9781421409023
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"