A Short History of Financial Euphoria - Hardcover

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670850284 ISBN 13: 9780670850280

Publisher: Viking Pr, 1993

Synopsis

The world-renowned economist reviews the great speculative episodes of the last three centuries, including the calamitous junk-bond follies of the 1980s, and shows how the lessons of history can help people avoid financial calamity. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo.

About this title

About the Author:

John Kenneth Galbraith is the Paul M. Wartburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University.

From Publishers Weekly:

Galbraith's entertaining, wonderfully instructive cautionary essay should be required reading for investors. His focus is "recurrent lapses into financial dementia," reckless speculative episodes fueled by greed, euphoria and investors' delusion that their temporary good fortune is due to their own superior financial acumen. The renowned Harvard economist chronicles a series of "flights into mass insanity," from wild speculation in tulip bulbs in 17th-century Holland through the U.S. stock market crash of 1929, the 1980s mergers-and-acquistions mania and the savings and loan scandal. Comparing these crises, he finds recurring common features, such as evasion of hard realities, new financial instruments presumed to be of stunning novelty and debt that became dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment. His proposed remedy is "enhanced skepticism" on the part of investors and the public.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0670850284
• ISBN 13: 9780670850280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128