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Title: Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics) by Charles P. Kindleberger ISBN: 0-471-38945-5 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 12 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Wordy but informative
Comment: This book goes through the economic history of our country. This book gets very wordy at times and goes into almost too much needless detail, but can be very informative. Kindleberger shows us that bad behavior can happen even now on the economic market, and that there is a definable parren to economic crises. Chapter one talks about how economic lows usually follow peaks in our economy. Chapter two discusses the patterns of a crisis. Chapter three compares crises and describe how they differ. Chapter four says that bad credit adds to the problems.Chapter five discusses those who help add to the problems of a crisis. Chapter six looks at the feelings of people as they make and lose money. Chapter seven deals with economies effects domestically and chapter eight internationally. Chapter nine talks about the good and bad of trying to let the problems fix themselves and chapter ten discusses the leaders of the economy. Although going into great detail, almost too much detail at times, it proves informative in the end. Three stars.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sorry amazon, I read the library's copy...
Comment: I'm puzzled by some of the negative comments about this book here, as I'm neither an economist nor a historian and I found the book quite accessible and interesting. The fairly predictable sequence of events leading to crashes, which have been played out many times in the past, is the book's central theme. Some of the story-telling could even be described as fascinating at times, though my knowledge of the subject was pretty much limited to what one learns of the famed `29 crash in high school american history.
Anyway, the critics here are not entirely wrong, though I think they're being a bit nit-picky. I don't think the widely-read and educated lay-person should be scared off. I liked the book, learned something significant from it, was mildly entertained and impressed by the author's plethora of knowledge, and occasionally recommend it to those with an interest in financial markets, especially their so-called irrational side.
Rating: 4
Summary: extremely valuable and informative, though incomplete
Comment: for the economist in me, i resent the fact that the author didn't include the relevant quant / charts of the macroecon factors that precipitated the various extreme situations he describes. having said that, this book does describe the aforementioned factors, as well as detailed accounts of precipitiating factors, outcomes and, sadly, reoccurrences.
if one had read this book prior to 99, one would have profited from the nasdaq meltdown. ---if that's not an endorsement, i don't know what is.
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Title: Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor ISBN: 0452281806 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 05 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Short History of Financial Euphoria (Penguin Business) by John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 0140238565 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 0395859999 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein ISBN: 0471295639 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 31 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (A Marketplace Book) by Edwin Lefèvre, Marketplace Books ISBN: 0471059706 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 11 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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