About this title: With all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, how is it that the market still goes boom and bust? How can people be so willing to get caught up in the mania of speculation when history tells us that a collapse is almost sure to follow? In this primer, the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith ...
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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: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1994-07-01
ISBN-13:9780140238563ISBN:0140238565
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670850280ISBN:0670850284
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140238563ISBN:0140238565
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1994-07-01
ISBN-13:9780140238563ISBN:0140238565
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Description: Very Good. 0670850284 1993 Ex-library hardback. There is minimal dirt on the outer. The binding is in great shape as are the pages. Pgs 99-102 have some wrinkles on the bottom half of the pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780670850280ISBN:0670850284
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140238563ISBN:0140238565
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John Kenneth Galbraith's short, literary book on financial speculation and the inevitability of subsequent economic catastrophe contends that devastating financial collapse is built into the free-enterprise system - an idea as intriguing today as it was when this book debuted in the mid-1990s. The late famous economist ended this treatise with a chilling question: "When will come the next great speculative episode and in what venue will it recur?" Everyone now knows the answer to that question all too well. Alarmingly, according to Galbraith, the travails that capitalist economies are now grimly experiencing will recur over and over. getAbstract suggests that anyone who wants to understand the kinks in the system - and human nature - that will continue to lead to hugely devastating, economic train wrecks should read Galbraith's book."
"Helpful in understanding the current financial crisis. More proof that if one doesn't learn from history one is doomed to repeat it.
Taking Gailbreths ideological bent, an odd and unexpected theme showed up. There was a strong caveat emptor and blame the victim point of view expressed.
Progressives and Conservatives can both find this of interest."
"This short book should be a must read for all those involved in our financial institutions. Galbraith shows how we have repeatedly allowed ourselves to ride the boom/bust roller coaster and how the pattern repeats itself. If only we could see it while it was happening and be willing to put on the brakes!"
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