Manias, panics and crashes : a history of financial crises.
Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Edition: 5th ed. / Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Z. AliberDescription: viii, 309 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781403936516 (pbk.) :
- 9781403936516 (pbk.) :
- 338.542 KIN
- HB3722 .K56 2005
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Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Financial crisis: a hardy perennial -- 2.Anatomy of a typical crisis -- 3.Specualtive manias -- 4.Fueling the flames: the expansion of credit -- 5.The critical stage -- 6.Euphoria and economic booms - 7.International contagion -- 8.Bubble contagion: Tokyo to Bangkok to New York -- 9.Frauds, swindles, and the credit cycle -- 10.Policy responses: letting it burn out, and other devices -- 11.The domestic lender of last resort -- 12.The international lender of last resort -- 13.The lessons of history and the most tumultuous decades ever.
Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this work is a scholarly account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries.