The Cultural Life of Risk and Innovation - 9780367361501

Taylor & Francis

The Cultural Life of Risk and InnovationImagining New Markets from the Seventeenth Century to the Present\nAuthor(s): Chia Yin Hsu, Thomas M. Luckett, Erika Vause\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367361501, 978-0367361501\nSynopsis\nHow did \""innovation\"" become something to strive for, an end in itself? And how did \""the market\"" come to be thought of as the space of innovation? This edited volume provides the first historical examination of how innovations are conceived, marketed, navigated and legitimated from a global perspective that highlights contrasting experiences. These experiences include: colonial \""projecting\"" in the Dutch New Netherlands, trust networks in the early US securities market, female investors during the Financial Revolution, life insurance in nineteenth-century France, \""bubbles\"" and trusts in 1920s Shanghai, government regulation of the pre-Revolutionary stock market and the checkered.