Money mania : booms, panics, and busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown /
Swarup, Bob,
Money mania : booms, panics, and busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown / Bob Swarup. - 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Déjà vu all over again -- Of men, money, and mania -- Deconstructing the Gruffalo: a Roman parable -- All things being unequal: redefining economics -- Ego and Euphoria: a Japanese interlude -- II. Man: the furnace within -- The road to Newnham: the bounds of rationality -- The Temple of Janus: time, memory, and uncertainty -- The greater fools: a personal interlude -- The madding crowd: crowds, confirmation, and confidence -- III. Money: the catalyst without -- Man, meet money: the bank run -- Life after debt: credit and currency -- All that glitters: tulipmania -- IV. Complexity: the alchemy of crisis -- A universal truth: an aside on paradigms -- Birds of a feather: the ecology of capitalism -- A tragedy of small decisions: the great depression -- V. Lifting the veil -- Greeks bearing gifts: a tragicomedy -- Alpha and Omega: two millennia of crises -- In the land of the blind: searching for answers.
1608198413 9781608198412
2013041928
Speculation--History
Investments--History
HG6005 / .S93 2014
332.64509
Money mania : booms, panics, and busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown / Bob Swarup. - 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Déjà vu all over again -- Of men, money, and mania -- Deconstructing the Gruffalo: a Roman parable -- All things being unequal: redefining economics -- Ego and Euphoria: a Japanese interlude -- II. Man: the furnace within -- The road to Newnham: the bounds of rationality -- The Temple of Janus: time, memory, and uncertainty -- The greater fools: a personal interlude -- The madding crowd: crowds, confirmation, and confidence -- III. Money: the catalyst without -- Man, meet money: the bank run -- Life after debt: credit and currency -- All that glitters: tulipmania -- IV. Complexity: the alchemy of crisis -- A universal truth: an aside on paradigms -- Birds of a feather: the ecology of capitalism -- A tragedy of small decisions: the great depression -- V. Lifting the veil -- Greeks bearing gifts: a tragicomedy -- Alpha and Omega: two millennia of crises -- In the land of the blind: searching for answers.
1608198413 9781608198412
2013041928
Speculation--History
Investments--History
HG6005 / .S93 2014
332.64509