A short history of financial euphoria / John Kenneth Galbraith.
How is it that, with all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, the market still goes boom and bust? How come people are so willing to get caught up in the mania of speculation when history tells us that a collapse is almost sure to follow?
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New York, N.Y. :
Whittle Books in association with Viking,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Speculative Episode
- 2. The Common Denominators
- 3. The Classic Cases, I: The Tulipomania; John Law and the Banque Royale
- 4. The Classic Cases, II: The Bubble
- 5. The American Tradition
- 6. 1929
- 7. October Redux
- 8. Reprise.