About this title: The 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation of credit practices--the subject of James Grant's brilliant, clear-eyed history of American finance. Two long-running trends converged in the 1980s to create one of our greatest speculative booms: the democratization of credit and the socialization of risk. At the turn of the century, it was ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1992
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 513 pages, illustrations, charts, tables, cloth, dj, very good. From the publisher: Two long-running trends converged in the 1980s to create one of our greatest speculative booms: the democratization of credit and the socialization of risk. At the turn of the century, it was almost impossible for the average working person to get a loan. In the 1980s, it was almost impossible to refuse one. As the pace of lending grew, the government undertook to bear more ... read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1992
Description: Near fine in near fine jacket; minor soiling to textblock edges, imperceptible stain on jacket verso else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped jacket. read more
Description: Very Good. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. Second printing. Hardcover. 513 pp., incl. index. Blue cloth with dark blue quarters and gilt titles on spine. Fine, in very good unclipped jacket. Inscribed and signed by author on flyleaf. Very light edge wear and curl to jacket. Grant is best known for his many appearances on "Wall Street Week" and for his prescient prediction of the 1980s credit crunch. This long historical view is of tremendous value in our short-term oriented media ... read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780374169794ISBN:0374169799
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. First Edition (stated); Book (text and binding As New); Jacket Near Fine w/slight wear top of spine. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 513 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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"Very revealing. Every lender or bond investor should read this. It helped me understand fully why Citibank had its two debacles in the 1980s (Latin American & US Real Estate); a question of great interest to me as an ex-Citibanker."
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