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A Short History of Financial Euphoria

by John Kenneth Galbraith

  • FINISHED
  • Finished November 2017
  • First published 1990

economics markets crises history

Galbraith looks at repeated speculative booms, from tulip mania to the 1987 crash.   He argues that investors forget past crashes and that new generations repeat the same mistakes.