Fortune Tellers: The Story of America S First Economic Forecasters
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-16919-4
- EAN: 9780691169194
- Produktnummer: 19085021
- Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B14.4 cm x D2.7 cm 376 g
- Gewicht: 376
Über den Autor
Walter A. Friedman is a historian at Harvard Business School and the author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America.
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