Икономическа история
Essays on the Great Depression
Ben S. Bernanke
Издател: Princeton University Press
Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and
Famous First Bubbles
Peter M. Garber
Издател: The MIT Press
The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests that an event is inexplicably crowd-driven,
Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience and Debate, 1800-1845
Lawrence H. White
Издател: The Institute of Economic Affairs
Free banking, generically speaking, denotes a monetary system without a central bank, under which the issuing of currency is left to private banks. This book explores how this could work in practice by examining how this has worked historically, specifically in the United Kingdom in the early 19th century. After building a theory of free banking,
Free Banking in Britain: Theory, Experience and Debate, 1800-1845
Lawrence H. White
Издател: The Institute of Economic Affairs
Free banking, generically speaking, denotes a monetary system without a central bank, under which the issuing of currency is left to private banks. This book explores how this could work in practice by examining how this has worked historically, specifically in the United Kingdom in the early 19th century. After building a theory of free banking,
Great Myths of the Great Depression
Lawrence W. Reed
Издател: Macinac Center, Foundation for Economic Education
Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era. In this essay based on a popular lecture, Mackinac Center for Public Policy President Lawrence W. Reed debunks the
How Capitalism Saved America
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Издател: Random House
"How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present" seems like just the right book to give a market skeptic. "You have doubts about capitalism? Read this." After years of interacting with students in an urban business-school environment, DiLorenzo knows precisely what are the main points of
Inflated
R. Christopher Whalen
Издател: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
I first noticed the brains and talent in R. Christopher Whalen in 2007. I was a trader at Lehman and every time I saw Chris on CNBC I was blown away by his straight forward common sense approach to the inner workings of the world of modern finance. Chris called many ills of the financial crisis over a year before they happened. He’s made me a
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
Издател: Windmill Books
Pulitzer Prize Winners for 2010
Pulitzer Prize for History:
Lords of Finance: 1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and
Money and Power
William D. Cohan
Издател: Allen Lane
For much of its storied 142-year history, Goldman Sachs has projected an image of being better than its competitors--smarter, more collegial, more ethical, and far more profitable. The firm--buttressed by the most aggressive and sophisticated p.r. machine in the financial industry--often boasts of "The Goldman Way," a business model predicated on
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