Using data from the 2018 National Financial Capabilities Study (NFCS) Investor’s Survey, this research investigated the determinants of naming a “trusted contact.” In early 2018, FINRA enacted Rule 4512 that requires brokerage firms to ask clients to provide a trusted contact if the firm...

"A Portrait of America describes our nation's changing population and examines some of its most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities, through a demographic lens. Specifically, chapters cover the following topics:...

Portrait of America describes our nation's changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Celebrated authorJohn Iceland covers various topics,...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Exposition Infrastructure and Exhibition Display: An Introduction -- 2 Judging the Progress of Sanitary Science: The 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition -- 3 Preventing Fear and Panic: The 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition -- 4 Occupying a Vast Camp:...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 3. Time and Location -- 4. Morale -- 5. Company Risk Aversion -- 6. Internal Pay Structure -- 7. External Pay Structure -- 8. The Shirking Theory -- 9. The Pay of New Hires in the Primary Sector -- 10. Raises -- 11....

Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually profoundly entwined at the heart of...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- An Accident? -- This Book -- Financial Regulation Matters -- Some Final Introductory Remarks -- Road Map -- Chapter 2. Regulating Finance Is Hard to Do -- Introduction -- Shareholders versus Debt Holders: The Essence...