Boom and bust : a global history of financial bubbles / William Quinn, John D. Turner.
By: Quinn, William [author.]
.Contributor(s): Turner, John D [author.].Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: viii, 288 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781108421256.Subject(s): Business cycles -- History | Financial crises -- History | Business forecastingDDC classification: 338.54209 Summary: "Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks."-- Taken from dust jacket.
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| 338.542 GLO Global governance and financial crises / | 338.542 KRU The return of depression economics / | 338.542 REI This time is different : | 338.54209 QUI Boom and bust : a global history of financial bubbles / | 338.54209041 DOW Major recessions : | 338.5420973 NAT A history of the United States in five crashes : | 338.543094 HOL Beyond austerity : |
"Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks."-- Taken from dust jacket.