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Scenes from a Power Struggle: The Rise of Retail Investors in the US Stock Market

by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2012 | Stock Market

2012, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 34: 231-258. This chapter examines the mass movement of Americans into investing during the 1990s as both a consequence and a cause of contested power between corporations and individuals. This movement was part of a...

Shame and Stock Market Losses: The Case of Amateur Investors in the US

by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2012 | Stock Market

2012, Pp. 81-98 in Emotions in Finance, Jocelyn Pixley (Ed.), Routledge. Losing money evokes a host of emotions, most of them painful. In his earliest work, Adam Smith wrote of the “embarrassment” and shame associated with financial losses, with bankruptcy being “the...

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