Money mania : booms, panics, and busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown / Bob Swarup.
2014
332.64509 S973m 2014
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Title
Money mania : booms, panics, and busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown / Bob Swarup.
Author
Edition
First U.S. edition.
ISBN
9781608198412 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1608198413 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1608198413 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
332.64509 S973m 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)862149157
(OCoLC)862149157
(OCoLC)862149157
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
I. Déjà vu all over again
Of men, money, and mania
Deconstructing the Gruffalo: a Roman parable
All things being unequal: redefining economics
Ego and Euphoria: a Japanese interlude
II. Man: the furnace within
The road to Newnham: the bounds of rationality
The Temple of Janus: time, memory, and uncertainty
The greater fools: a personal interlude
The madding crowd: crowds, confirmation, and confidence
III. Money: the catalyst without
Man, meet money: the bank run
Life after debt: credit and currency
All that glitters: tulipmania
IV. Complexity: the alchemy of crisis
A universal truth: an aside on paradigms
Birds of a feather: the ecology of capitalism
A tragedy of small decisions: the great depression
V. Lifting the veil
Greeks bearing gifts: a tragicomedy
Alpha and Omega: two millennia of crises
In the land of the blind: searching for answers.
Of men, money, and mania
Deconstructing the Gruffalo: a Roman parable
All things being unequal: redefining economics
Ego and Euphoria: a Japanese interlude
II. Man: the furnace within
The road to Newnham: the bounds of rationality
The Temple of Janus: time, memory, and uncertainty
The greater fools: a personal interlude
The madding crowd: crowds, confirmation, and confidence
III. Money: the catalyst without
Man, meet money: the bank run
Life after debt: credit and currency
All that glitters: tulipmania
IV. Complexity: the alchemy of crisis
A universal truth: an aside on paradigms
Birds of a feather: the ecology of capitalism
A tragedy of small decisions: the great depression
V. Lifting the veil
Greeks bearing gifts: a tragicomedy
Alpha and Omega: two millennia of crises
In the land of the blind: searching for answers.
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