Financial edgework: Trading in market currents

Edgework: The Sociology of Risk-Taking

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 187-200

  Smith, Charles W ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84905938602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203005293     Document Type: Chapter

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