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Title:
Money mania : booms, panics, and busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown / Bob Swarup.
Author:
Swarup, Bob.
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2014.
Call Number:
HG6005 .S93 2014
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
ISBN:
9781608198412
Physical Description:
310 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
I. Déjà vu all over again -- Of men, money, and mania -- Deconstructing the Gruffalo: a Roman parable -- All things being unequal: redefining economics -- Ego and Euphoria: a Japanese interlude -- II. Man: the furnace within -- The road to Newnham: the bounds of rationality -- The Temple of Janus: time, memory, and uncertainty -- The greater fools: a personal interlude -- The madding crowd: crowds, confirmation, and confidence -- III. Money: the catalyst without -- Man, meet money: the bank run -- Life after debt: credit and currency -- All that glitters: tulipmania -- IV. Complexity: the alchemy of crisis -- A universal truth: an aside on paradigms -- Birds of a feather: the ecology of capitalism -- A tragedy of small decisions: the great depression -- V. Lifting the veil -- Greeks bearing gifts: a tragicomedy -- Alpha and Omega: two millennia of crises -- In the land of the blind: searching for answers.
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