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Author : Bob Swarup
Release : 2014-02-25
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 413/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Money Mania by : Bob Swarup
Download or read book Money Mania written by Bob Swarup. This book was released on 2014-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown of 2008, this account of financial crises throughout history reveals the common human foibles that drive economic booms and busts.
Author : Anne Goldgar
Release : 2008-09-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 303/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tulipmania by : Anne Goldgar
Download or read book Tulipmania written by Anne Goldgar. This book was released on 2008-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation. But it wasn’t like that. As Anne Goldgar reveals in Tulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archival research, she lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of the bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think. By clearing away the accumulated myths, Goldgar is able to show us instead the far more interesting reality: the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age. “Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: ‘Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.’. . . She tells a new story.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times
Author : Ivan F. Boesky
Release : 1985
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Merger Mania by : Ivan F. Boesky
Download or read book Merger Mania written by Ivan F. Boesky. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norris Clarion Sprigg
Release : 1907
Genre : American poetry
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Book Synopsis Sprigs of Poetry by : Norris Clarion Sprigg
Download or read book Sprigs of Poetry written by Norris Clarion Sprigg. This book was released on 1907. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Swarup
Release : 2014-03-10
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 421/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Money Mania by : Bob Swarup
Download or read book Money Mania written by Bob Swarup. This book was released on 2014-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money Mania is a sweeping account of financial speculation and its consequences, from ancient Rome to the Meltdown of 2008. Acclaimed journalist and investor Bob Swarup tracks the history of speculative fevers caused by the appearance of new profitable investment opportunities; the new assets created and the increasing self-congratulatory euphoria that drives them to unsustainable highs, all fed by an illusion of insight and newly minted experts; the unexpected catalysts that eventually lead to panic; the inevitable crash as investors scramble to withdraw their funds from the original market and any other that might resemble it; and finally, the brevity of financial memory that allows us to repeat the cycle without ever critically evaluating the drivers of this endless cycle. In short, it is the story of what makes us human.
