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Издател: Cambridge University Press
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Издател: John Wiley and Sons
Why do markets crash and bank panics happen? Conventional wisdom has gathered, like iron filings, at two intellectual poles: at one extreme is a hodge-podge of idiosyncratic, period-specific causes and at the other is a host of all-encompassing "single bullet" theories. In The Panic of 1907, authors Robert Bruner and Sean Carr offer an alternate
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Издател: Dover Publications, Inc.
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Издател: The MIT Press
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Издател: Penguin Press
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Издател: Penguin Books
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Издател: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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Roger Lowenstein
Издател: Fourth Estate
The book tells the story of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), an American hedge fund which commanded more than $100 billion in assets at its height. Among LTCM's principals were several former university professors, including two Nobel Prize-winning economists. The book is separated into two sections: the rise and the fall. Chapters 1-6
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