The Kansas Blue Sky Act of 1911 An Experiment in Securities Regulation and its Impact

This book will be of interest to researchers working in American financial history, as well as legal history and securities law. David Ress is a journalist and honorary research associate at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Municipal Accountability in the American Age of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ress, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The dynamics of paternalism: The Naïf, The Slicker and The Busybody
  • 2. A Country Banker
  • 3. Mr. Thompkins Comes to Town: Buyer Beware
  • 4. After the Fakirs
  • 5. A Wise Man to Look Out for you
  • 6. The Busybody’s Heavy Hand
  • 7. The Banker Shunned
  • 8. "You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time”: Still Falling for Dreams of Wealth
  • 9. The Ticker’s Siren Song
  • 10. Not quite a Naïf, Not quite a Con Man: paternalism and liberty in the market