Money mania : booms, panics, and busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown / Bob Swarup.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1608198413
- 9781608198412
- 332.64509 23
- HG6005 .S93 2014
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332.645 STU Risk management & derivatives / | 332.6450151 GUO Quantitative trading : algorithms, analytics, data, models, optimization / | 332.6450151828 MCL Monte Carlo simulation and finance / | 332.64509 SWA Money mania : booms, panics, and busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown / | 332.6452 BAL Money management strategies for futures traders / | 332.6452 HUL Fundamentals of futures and options markets / | 332.6452 HUL Fundamentals of futures and options markets / |
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.
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