STOCK MARKET CRASHES AND SPECULATIVE MANIAS
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- Hardcover
584 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1996
Summary
This volume offers an authoritiative selection of the best published articles on the great speculative manias and stock market crashes, which highlights their important similarities. These phenomena disrupt the normal activities of investors who use financial markets to accumulate diversified portfolios of assets. The attraction of rapid capital gains entices the unwary to abandon their customary investments, exposing them to ruin when prices of hot new assets collapse. The mania for tulip…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781852785598 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1852785594 |
| Author: | Eugene N. White |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 584 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1996 |
| Weight: | 1.16kg |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 169mm |
| Series: | The International Library of Macroeconomic and Financial History series |
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Critics Review
‘This volume achieves a nice balance by wisely assembling opposing views, alternative methods, and background information, and by covering a broad range of times, places and markets. Its structure and organization encourage historical thinking, pushing the reader beyond the arguments of the individual articles.’ – Charles W. Calomiris, Journal of Economic History
About The Author
Eugene N. White
Edited by Eugene N. White, Professor of Economics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick and Research Fellow, National Bureau for Economic Research, US
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