Boom and Bust
A Global History of Financial Bubbles
by William Quinn, John D. Turner
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Pub Date Aug 20 2020 | Archive Date Aug 12 2020
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Description
Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently?
In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride 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. As they do so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have actually benefited society.
They reveal that bubbles start when investors and speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to predict these sparks.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781108421256 |
| PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Patrick P, Reviewer
A book that delivers on the promise of the title.
William and John have a hypothesis: three common themes to financial investment bubbles. They set on proving that theory based on a dozen or so boom and bust cycles over the course of three centuries.
It is an interesting journey and provides illuminating insights, but it reads at times a little too repetitive. This is good to bring home a point, hammering it almost into your brain, but makes the book itself a little less enjoyable to read.
Not a perfect score, but still a great book if you like books about investing in general.
Darya Y, Reviewer
The book is very good from historical perspective. There are detailed and interesting observations on bubbles and how they happened. The analysis is detailed and comprehensive. Loved the thoughts on the consequences of bubbles. They seem to be important for the fever of sociey, technology advancement and overall economic progress.
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