McCartney, S.; Arnold, A.J. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 16 (2003) 5, pp. 821-852
The wild boom and slump of 1845‐1847 was the most important of the nineteenth century railway manias, in terms both of its scale and effects on the economy as a whole. It has almost invariably been seen as a market irrationality, a view fundamentally challenged by Bryer’s theorisation of it...
