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

Kindleberger, Charles Poor, 1910-

Manias, panics, and crashes : a history of financial crises / Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber ; [with a new foreword by Robert Solow]. - 5th ed. - Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2005. - viii, 309 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Wiley investment classics .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-295) and index.

Financial crisis : a hardy perennial -- Anatomy of a typical crisis -- Speculative manias -- Fueling the flames : the expansion of credit -- The critical stage -- Euphoria and economic booms -- International contagion -- Bubble contagion : Tokyo to Bangkok to New York -- Frauds, swindles, and the credit cycle -- Policy responses : letting it burn out, and other devices -- The domestic lender of last resort -- The lessons of history and the most tumultuous decaded ever.



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Financial crises.
Business cycles.
Depressions.

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