Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Manias, panics and crashes :

Aliber, Robert Z.

Manias, panics and crashes : a history of financial crises / Robert Z. Aliber, Emeritus Professor of International Economics and Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and Charles P. Kindleberger, formerly Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - Seventh Edition. - ix, 426 pages ; 24 cm

Revised edition of Manias, panics, and crashes, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-403) and index.

Foreword -- Robert M. Solow -- Introduction -- Financial crises: a hardy perennial -- The anatomy of a typical crisis -- Speculative manias -- Fueling the flames : the expansion of credit -- The critical stage : when the bubble is about to pop -- Euphoria and paper wealth -- Bernie madoff : frauds, swindles, and the credit cycle -- International contagion 1618¿1930 -- Bubble contagion : mexico city to tokyo to bangkok to new york, london, and reykjavik -- Euromania and eurocrash -- Policy responses : benign neglect, exhortation, and bank holidays -- The domestic lender of last resort -- The international lender of last resort -- The lehman panic : an avoidable crash -- The lessons of history -- Epilogue -- Afterword / Lord Robert Skidelsky.

9781137525758 (pbk.)

2015017424


Financial crises.
Business cycles.
Depressions.

HB3722. / K56 2015

338.5/42