Hollow, Matthew orcid.org/0000-0001-5207-5192 (2019) A nation of investors or a procession of fools? Reevaluating the behavior of Britain's shareholding population through the prism of the interwar sharepushing crime wave. Enterprise & society. pp. 132-158. ISSN 1467-2227
Abstract
In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the amount of scholarship on the history of shareholding in Britain. One area that still remains relatively unexplored, however, is the problematic issue of how British investors actually went about the process of choosing their respective investments. The purpose of this article is to make a start at redressing this gap by using the (perceived) sharepushing crime wave that swept across Britain during the interwar period as a prism through which to evaluate the behavior of Britain's shareholding population at this time. Ultimately, what it suggests is that, while the interwar British investors may well have had far more potential sources of advice and information open to them than their nineteenth-century forebears, this did not necessarily mean that they were any better informed about the workings of the British securities market.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2018 15:40 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:30 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2018.11 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/eso.2018.11 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:127431 |
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