Capital Untamed
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-84759-7 (ISBN)
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Amid the rise of industrial capitalism and revolutionary turbulence in France, finance was reimagined to be an instrument of economic and social transformation rather than simply a source of private profit, speculation, and inequality. Under Napoleon III’s authoritarian regime of the 1850s, the Bonapartist state attempted to use finance to broaden financial securities ownership and sponsor new banking institutions with the promise to direct investment toward infrastructure and industry. But the effort to mobilize financial capital ran into a problem: the financial markets refused to be tamed.
Drawing on rich archival sources—from police reports and courtroom transcripts to investment manuals and shareholder petitions—Capital Untamed reveals how finance grew beyond being an instrument of political power until it escaped control. Robertson captures how the state and its citizens navigated the moment in European capitalism when the social purpose of financial capital had to be determined.
Charlotte Robertson is assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School.
Introduction. The Struggle over the Bourse
Part I. Instrumentalizing Finance, 1815–51
Preface to Part I. The Economy as It Was Experienced
Chapter 1. A Realizable Utopia: The Saint-Simonian Program to Reengineer Society Through Finance
Chapter 2. Financial Solutions to Social Questions: Projects for the Democratization of Capital
Part II. Confronting Autonomy, 1852–67
Preface to Part II. Authoritarianism and the Bourse
Chapter 3. Policing Finance: Capital Regulation, Public Surveillance, and Market Knowledge
Chapter 4. Harnessing Investment: The Bonapartist Experiment in Capital Governance
Chapter 5. Dualities of Capital: The Official Parquet and the Illicit Coulisse
Chapter 6. Aspiration and Asymmetry: Retail Investor Education and the Limits of Market Legibility
Conclusion. Promise and Peril
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 halftones |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-84759-4 / 0226847594 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-84759-7 / 9780226847597 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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