A Short History of Financial Euphoria - Brossura

Galbraith, John Kenneth Kenneth

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ISBN 10: 0140238565 ISBN 13: 9780140238563

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1994

Riassunto

As markets and economies around the world face meltdown, one man can sit back and say "I told you so!". Galbraith looks at the sobering lessons from history in his witty essay A SHORT HISTORY OF FINANCIAL EUPHORIA. From "Tulipomania" in 1636 to Black Monday in 1987 and numerous examples in between, he illustrates the unbroken cycle of boom and bust which we are experiencing again today. How can people be so willing to get caught up in the mania of speculation when history tells us that a collapse is almost inevitable? In this wise essay, Galbraith reviews the major speculative episodes of the last three centuries, drawing important lessons on speculative economics and demonstrates that money and intelligence are not necessarily linked.

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L'autore:

John Kenneth Galbraith was the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and was the US ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. His works THE GREAT CRASH 1929, THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY, THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE, and ECONOMICS AND THE PUBLIC PURPOSE are landmarks of political and economic analysis.

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The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds."-The Atlantic.[...]

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140238565
• ISBN 13: 9780140238563
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128