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Boom and Bust

A Global History of Financial Bubbles

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Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts, and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen and why some have catastrophic economic, social, and political consequences while others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.

©2020 Cambridge University Press (P)2021 Tantor Economic History Economics Microeconomics Banking Capitalism Latin American Socialism Deflation Taxation Financial History Global History
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Well narrated. Gives a historical perspective to try to explain how financial bubbles work. It is not for the financial novice so you need some understanding of investing to get the benefit of it

Good account of financial bubbles

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I got this on Audible and I found it so useful and decided to buy the book. I found it really well written and ideas are explained well.

Brilliant book

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The best book on financial bubbles I’ve read. A lot more engaging that some of the (much longer) classic books on bubbles. I very much appreciated the Bubble Triangle as a helpful framework for thinking about bubbles.

Great History of Financial Bubbles

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Very disappointing. A for university / academic dissertation, F for interesting read. Missed opportunity as the subject matter could have offered so much more

Really boring

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