02928cam a2200421 a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700600190003400700030005300800410005601000170009702000250011402000220013902000310016102000280019204000230022004100080024304200080025104300120025905000230027108200220029410000270031624500960034326000570043930000430049650400510053950502280059052012120081865000540203065000560208465000550214065000290219565000680222465100540229265100520234665100560239865100520245417254870BJBSDDR20230411090827.0a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta120413s2012    maua     b    001 0 eng    a  2012014805  a9780674736351 (pbk.)  a0674736354 (pbk.)  a9780674047488 (alk. paper)  a0674047486 (alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdDLCbeng  aeng  apcc  an-us---14aHC 105bL668f 201200a330.12/20973090341 aLevy, Jonathan,d1978-10aFreaks of fortune :bthe emerging world of capitalism and risk in America /cJonathan Levy.  aCambridge, Mass. :bHarvard University Press,c2012.  a414 pages : billustrations ; c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aThe assumption of risk -- The perils of the seas -- The actuarial science of freedom -- The failure of the freedman's bank -- Betting the farm -- Fraternity in the age of capital -- Trading the future -- The trust question.  a"Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions--insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets--while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk's rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one's own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name "financial services industry." Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives." 0aCapitalismzUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century. 4aCapitalismo xHistoria zEstados Unidos ySiglo XIX 0aRiskxSociological aspectsxHistoryy19th century. 4aSociología del riesgo  0aRisk-taking (Psychology)zUnited StatesxHistoryy19th century. 0aUnited StatesxEconomic conditionsy19th century. 0aUnited StatesxSocial conditionsy19th century. 4aEstados UnidosxCondiciones económicasySiglo XIX 4aEstados UnidosxCondiciones socialesySiglo XIX