Manias, panics and crashes : a history of financial crises

Author(s)

• Kindleberger, Charles Poor
• Aliber, Robert Z. (Robert Zelwin)
• Solow, Robert M. (Robert Merton)

Bibliographic Information

Manias, panics and crashes : a history of financial crises

Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber ; [with a new foreword by Robert Solow]

（Wiley investment classics）

John Wiley & Sons, c2005

5th ed

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-295) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the classic on crashes and financial crises. "Manias, Panics, and Crashes, Fifth Edition" is 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 classic ...both timely and timeless." In this new, updated Fifth Edition, Kindleberger and Aliber expand upon the ideas presented in the previous edition, and include two new chapters on the real estate price bubble that occurred in Norway, Sweden, and Finland at the end of the 1980s, and the three asset price bubbles that occurred between 1985 and 2000 in Japan and other Asian countries.Selected as one of the 10 best investment books of all time by the "Financial Times", "Manias, Panics, and Crashes" puts the turbulence of the financial world in perspective. Charles P. Kindleberger was the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT for 33 years. He was a financial historian and prolific writer who has published 30 books. Robert Aliber (Chicago, IL) is a professor of international economics and finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he has been a faculty member since 1965.

Table of Contents

• 1. Financial Crisis: A Hardy Perennial
• 2. Anatomy of a Typical Crisis
• 3. Speculative Manias
• 4. Fueling them Flames: The Expansion of Credit
• 5. The Critical Stage: Pricking the Bubble
• 6. Euphoria and Economic Booms
• 7. International Contagion
• 8. Bubble Contagion: Tokyo to Bangkok to New York
• 9. Swindles and Theft and Bad Manners
• 10. Policy Responses: Letting It Burn Out
• 11. Lenders of Last Resort: The Domestic Responses
• 12. The International Lender of Last Resort
• 13. Conclusion
• The Lessons of History

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA73953578
• ISBN:
  • 0471467146
• LCCN: 2005001066
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Hoboken, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 309 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HB3722
  • DC22 : 338.5/42
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Financial crises
  • LCSH : Business cycles
  • LCSH : Depressions
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA27200616