Swarup, Bob, <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1608198413 9781608198412 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013041928 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Speculation--History<br/>Investments--History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG6005  / .S93 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.64509