This time is different : eight centuries of financial folly

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF BOXES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREAMBLE: SOME INITIAL INTUITIONS ON FINANCIAL FRAGILITY AND THE FICKLE NATURE OF CONFIDENCE -- PART I. Financial Crises: An Operational Primer -- PART II. Sovereign External Debt Crises -- PART III. The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt and Default -- PART IV. Banking Crises, Inflation, and Currency Crashes -- PART V. The U.S. Subprime Meltdown and the Second Great Contraction -- PART VI. What Have We Learned? -- DATA APPENDIXES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX