Money mania
Subtitle: booms, panics, and busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown
By: Bob Swarup
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781608198412
Subjects: Speculation; History; Investments; Finance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Déjà vu all over again; title: Of men, money, and mania; title: Deconstructing the Gruffalo: a Roman parable; title: All things being unequal: redefining economics; title: Ego and Euphoria: a Japanese interlude; title: II. Man: the furnace within; title: The road to Newnham: the bounds of rationality; title: The Temple of Janus: time, memory, and uncertainty; title: The greater fools: a personal interlude; title: The madding crowd: crowds, confirmation, and confidence; title: III. Money: the catalyst without; title: Man, meet money: the bank run; title: Life after debt: credit and currency; title: All that glitters: tulipmania; title: IV. Complexity: the alchemy of crisis; title: A universal truth: an aside on paradigms; title: Birds of a feather: the ecology of capitalism; title: A tragedy of small decisions: the great depression; title: V. Lifting the veil; title: Greeks bearing gifts: a tragicomedy; title: Alpha and Omega: two millennia of crises; title: In the land of the blind: searching for answers.