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Boom and bust : a global history of financial bubbles /

By: Quinn, William, 1990-.
Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022Description: viii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781108431651.Subject(s): Business cycles -- History | Financial crises -- History | Business forecastingDDC classification: 338.54209
Contents:
The bubble triangle -- 1720 and the invention of the bubble -- Marketability revived: the first emerging market bubble -- Democratising speculation: the great railway mania -- Other people's money: the Australian land boom -- Wheeler-dealers: the British bicycle mania -- The roaring twenties and the Wall Street crash -- Blowing bubbles for political purposes: Japan in the 1980s -- The dot-com bubble -- 'No more boom and bust': the subprime bubble -- Casino capitalism with Chinese characteristics -- Predicting bubbles.
Summary: Quinn and Turner take us on a journey through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 338.54209 QUI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0084171
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-354) and index.

The bubble triangle -- 1720 and the invention of the bubble -- Marketability revived: the first emerging market bubble -- Democratising speculation: the great railway mania -- Other people's money: the Australian land boom -- Wheeler-dealers: the British bicycle mania -- The roaring twenties and the Wall Street crash -- Blowing bubbles for political purposes: Japan in the 1980s -- The dot-com bubble -- 'No more boom and bust': the subprime bubble -- Casino capitalism with Chinese characteristics -- Predicting bubbles.

Quinn and Turner take us on a journey through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s.

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