Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)

Manias, Panics, and Crashes, Fifth Edition is an engaging and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book puts the turbulence of the financial world in perspective. The updated fifth edition expands upon each chapter, and includes two new chapters focusing on significant financial crises of the last fifteen years. more

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Posted: Sep-05-2009

Better appreciated after having familiarity with multiple financial crisis

A scholarly and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book has been hailed as "a true...

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Posted: Aug-14-2009

History Really Does Ryme

I am always amazed how often history repeats itself and how quickly we forget. This book provides an amazing history of the credit markets for the last several hundred years. This should have been required reading for government officials and banks executives.

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Posted: Jun-26-2009

Its happened before

The latest financial meltdown is nothing new, we have suffered such panics before and will again. This book gives the reader a good perspective on previous financial follies and helps for understanding the current and future panics. A very readable and enjoyable financial history.

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Posted: May-13-2009

A wealth of information, badly written, poorly organized

This investment classic offers a comprehensive survey of all the major crashes and panics in financial history from the 17th century all the way to the dotcom era. The author analyzes these phenomena with a Minksy framework and provides indispensable insights on the psychology of the markets, the...

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Posted: Mar-22-2009

superb

This is a review of the 2005 edition. Although details differ, there are striking similarities in the basic structure of economic booms and busts. The author provides enough history to develop his arguments, then proceeds to apply them over 300 years of history. But this is more than "nil novum...

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Posted: Mar-20-2009

Classic description of the perennial business cycle

This is a classic one-volume description of the perennial business cycle. It is not really a history and it is not really a book of economic theory. Instead, it is a description of the boom-bust cycle, which draws extensively upon both history and theory.I have read a good deal on this subject....

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Posted: Mar-16-2009

A Book That Must be Read

I only had one semester of economics in college. The course was taught by an old man who had lived in the small city of Appleton, Wisconsin for most of his adult life and had therefore missed the labor wars to the extent that I took exception to his interpretation of a union factoid that I knew...

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Posted: Jul-07-2008

Manias, Panics, and Crashes

I gave this book to my grandson who is majoring at UCSD in economics. He has not had any course yet covering the history of financial crashes, etc. and finds it fascinating to compare past times with the present economic slowdown. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley...

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Posted: Jun-01-2008

Presents a correct analysis but should have devoted some more time to the warnings of Smith and Keynes-4 .5 stars

Kindleberger does a great job of demonstrating what the root cause of economic downturns is.The process starts as bubbles of speculation on a sea of enterprise and entrepreneurship as pointed out by Keynes.However,as time passes the bankers decide to shift loans to speculators as well as...

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Posted: Mar-11-2008

The Reality

The REALITY is that the small super-over-incredible-tons rich globalist groups that control the world finances are behind this "financial crisis". They , in their plans to globalize the world need from one side to remove the middle class in order to build its socialist type (without saying that...

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