This book explains factors behind economic growth, recessions, and speculative bubbles, including the 2008 financial crisis and other economic busts.
The world of art discarded the traditional values and standards, and curators, museum officials, gallery owners, ... while phonies, nonentities, and flimflam artists are routinely pronounced to be the great geniuses of our time.
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Individuals with juvenile diabetes faced a “ghastly choice between death from diabetes or a few more months of famished life before dying of starvation.”12 It was in this setting that Elizabeth Hughes, ...
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This book provides a thorough explanation of the nature and history of booms, bubbles and busts in financial markets. The first part of the book deals with financial booms and bubbles and how they emerge, develop and collapse.
This wonderful reality would not exist in the absence of financial cycles. This book explains why.
In this spirited book, Vikram Mansharamani brings to life five famous boom-bust episodes and argues for a multidisciplinary, generalist approach. Boombustology is an engaging read for specialists and generalists alike.
This book provides a thorough explanation of the nature and history of booms, bubbles and busts in financial markets. The first part of the book deals with financial booms and bubbles and how they emerge, develop and collapse.
The "creative" financing of home mortgages and "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed.
This curated collection will guide you from the Tulip Mania of the 17th century up to the more recent Bitcoin Bubble.