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Manias, panics and crashes : a history of financial crises.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Edition: 5th ed. / Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Z. AliberDescription: viii, 309 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781403936516 (pbk.) :
  • 9781403936516 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.542 KIN
LOC classification:
  • HB3722 .K56 2005
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 338.542 KIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 207218

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.

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