Foreword -- Robert M. Solow -- Introduction -- Financial crises: a hardy perennial -- The anatomy of a typical crisis -- Speculative manias -- Fueling the flames : the expansion of credit -- The critical stage : when the bubble is about to pop -- Euphoria and paper wealth -- Bernie madoff :...

This seventh edition of an investment classic has been thoroughly revised and expanded following the latest crises to hit international markets. Renowned economist Robert Z. Aliber introduces the concept that global financial crises in recent years are not independent events, but symptomatic of...

1: Financial Crises: a Hardy Perennial -- 2: The Anatomy of a Typical Crisis.-3: Speculative Manias -- 4: Fueling the Flames: the Expansion of Credit -- 5: The Critical Stage – When the Bubble Is About To Pop -- 6: Bernie Madoff: Frauds, Swindles, and the Credit Cycle -- 7: Domestic Contagion:...

Fighting financial crises: learning from the past -- The New York Clearing House Association -- The start of a panic -- What the New York Clearing House did during National Vanking Era panics -- Information production and suppression and emergency liquidity -- "Too big to fail" before the Fed --...

The commencement of hostilities -- A question of all time -- As the legislature commands -- And this is Republicanism!!! -- A new and detestable future -- At any time otherwise order and direct -- The Bank has fallen -- Sentinels in this institution -- We are all political electioneers -- An...

Klappentext: In den formativen vier Jahren zwischen Unabhängigkeit und Verfassungsrevolution in Amerika tobte in Pennsylvania der sogenannte Bankenkrieg um die erste Geschäftsbank der Vereinigten Staaten. Diese Arbeit stellt die Kontroverse um die Bank of North America ereignisgeschichtlich...