For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to investors of the dangers of unbridled speculation. Yet history repeats itself and the same elemental forces that drove up the price of South Sea...

José A. Scheinkman offers new insight into the mystery of bubbles in financial markets. Noting some general characteristics of bubbles-such as the rise in trading volume and the coincidence between increases in supply and bubble implosions-Scheinkman offers a model, based on differences in...

Intro -- ENERGY PRICES: SUPPLY,DEMANDOR SPECULATION? -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- SPECULATION AND ENERGY PRICES:LEGISLATIVE RESPONSES -- SUMMARY -- OVERVIEW -- LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS: CLOSING LOOPHOLES -- The Enron Loophole -- The London Loophole -- The Swaps Loophole -- Other Legislative Approaches...

In The Death of Capital, respected portfolio manager and longtime investment professional Michael Lewitt looks at how the U.S. economy has increasingly been dominated by short-term speculation rather than industrial expansion in recent years. These disastrous trends, described here as...

"This volume engages in a wide-ranging investigation of what speculation can mean and how, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial critical and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character."

Zum 25-jährigen Verlagsjubiläum veröffentlicht der Börsenbuch-Verlag Kostolanys 1. Buch über die Börse aus dem Jahr 1961 erneut, in dem der Spekulant anekdotenreich und charmant darüber plaudert, wie es ihm gelang, durch profunde Analysen, Intuition und Erfahrung an der Börse reich zu...