Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics) |  | Author: Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 2344163
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4th
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0471389463
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.542
EAN: 9780471389460
ASIN: 0471389463
Publication Date: January 16, 2001
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"Sometime in the next five years you may kick yourself for not reading and re-reading Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes."-Paul A. Samuelson, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "One never picks up a work by Charles Kindleberger without anticipating a feast of entertainment. But underneath the hilarious anecdotes, the elegant epigrams, and the graceful turns of phrase, Kindleberger is deadly serious. The manner in which human beings earn their livings is no laughing matter to him, especially when they attempt to do so at the expense of one another." -from the Foreword by Peter L. Bernstein, author of Against the Gods and The Power of Gold Praise for Manias, Panics, and Crashes "Classic. . . . Manias, Panics, and Crashes is a durable guide to meditation: wise, witty, and practical. It is a template against which to measure the latest financial crisis-whatever and whenever that happens to be." -David Warsh, Boston Globe "Definitive." -Floyd Norris, New York Times "Menacing..." -The New Yorker "[Manias, Panics, and Crashes] is a scholarly account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries." -Richard Lambert, Financial Times "This book sparkles with the best of Kindleberger's wit, insight, and passion for financial history. A real delight." -Robert Z. Aliber, Professor of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business "What long has been the best history of financial pathologies is now even better. The reader who absorbs Kindleberger's lessons will be prepared to foresee and navigate the financial crises that surely lie ahead. Like a true classic, Manias, Panics, and Crashes is both timely and timeless." -Richard Sylla, Kaufman Professor of Financial History, Stern School of Business, New York University
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Better appreciated after having familiarity with multiple financial crisis September 5, 2009
M. Lai
A scholarly and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book has been hailed as "a true classic...both timely and timeless." The updated fifth edition expands upon each chapter, and includes two new chapters covering significant crises of the last fifteen years around the world.
 History Really Does Ryme August 14, 2009
Matthew P. Jarvis (Federal Way, WA)
I am always amazed how often history repeats itself and how quickly we forget. This book provides an amazing history of the credit markets for the last several hundred years. This should have been required reading for government officials and banks executives.
Its happened before June 26, 2009
Thomas Grover (Naples, Florida)
The latest financial meltdown is nothing new, we have suffered such panics before and will again. This book gives the reader a good perspective on previous financial follies and helps for understanding the current and future panics. A very readable and enjoyable financial history.
 A wealth of information, badly written, poorly organized May 13, 2009
T. Tse
This investment classic offers a comprehensive survey of all the major crashes and panics in financial history from the 17th century all the way to the dotcom era. The author analyzes these phenomena with a Minksy framework and provides indispensable insights on the psychology of the markets, the relevance of historical conditions, the deep underlying fundamentals as well as policy responses.
However, it takes considerable effort to harvest the insights. The book is VERY difficult to read. The author is a non-mathematical economist but I cannot agree with other reviewers who call him a literary economist as his writing is an absolute massacre of the English language. The style is elliptical and verbose. He shovels detailed historical facts right into your face, leaving you to piece them together. The author also repeats the same facts and ideas across chapters under a different pile of verbiage.
The appendix in this edition provides a useful chronological summary of all the crises treated in the main text. It is advisable to consult this first before diving into the mess.
superb March 22, 2009
reader (Syracuse NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a review of the 2005 edition. Although details differ, there are striking similarities in the basic structure of economic booms and busts. The author provides enough history to develop his arguments, then proceeds to apply them over 300 years of history. But this is more than "nil novum sub sole," because he focuses the last part of the book on the past 40 years, where more and bigger manias-crashes have occurred. This book, reviewed in early 2009, makes fascinating reading for those interested in what may lay ahead for all concerned. You really (but really) need to read this one.
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