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MANIAS, PANICS, AND CRASHES

Charles Kindlebeger & Robert Aliber

 

Subtitle: A History of Financial Crises, 5th ed. John Wiley & Sons, N.Y., 2005, 355 pgs., index, notes, appendix, paperback

 
 

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Chapter1 - Financial Crisis: A hardy Pereninial

 
 

Chapter2 - Anatomy of a Typical Crisis

 
 

Chapter 3 - Speculative Manias

 
 

Chapter 4 - Fueling the Flames - The Expansion of Credit

 
 

Chapter 5 - The Critical Stage

 
 

Chapter 6 - Euphoria and Economic Booms

 
 

Chapter 7 - International Contagion

 
 

Chapter 8 - Bubble Contagion: Tokyo to Bangkok to New York

 
 

Chapter 9 - Frauds, Swindles, and the Credit Cycle

 
 

Chapter 10 - Policy Responses: Letting It Burn Out, and other Devices

 
 

Chapter 11 - The Domestic Lender of Last Resort

 
 

Chapter 12 - The International Lender of Last Resort

 
 

Chapter 13 - The Lessons of History and the Most Tumultuous Decades Ever

 

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