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Crash!: How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
Phillip G. Payne
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Description for Crash!: How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
Paperback. Payne's book will help students recognize the telltale signs of bubbles and busts, so that they may become savvier consumers and investors. Series: How Things Worked. Num Pages: 152 pages, 11, 6 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; KCX; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. .
Speculation-an economic reality for centuries-is a hallmark of the modern U.S. economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some insist, by popular delusions and the madness of crowds, or do failed regulations play a greater part? And why is it that investors never seem to learn the lessons of past speculative bubbles? Crash! explores these questions by examining the rise and fall of the American economy in the 1920s. Phillip G. Payne frames the story of the 1929 stock market crash within the booming New Era economy of the 1920s and the bust ... Read more
Speculation-an economic reality for centuries-is a hallmark of the modern U.S. economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some insist, by popular delusions and the madness of crowds, or do failed regulations play a greater part? And why is it that investors never seem to learn the lessons of past speculative bubbles? Crash! explores these questions by examining the rise and fall of the American economy in the 1920s. Phillip G. Payne frames the story of the 1929 stock market crash within the booming New Era economy of the 1920s and the bust ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
How Things Worked
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418568
SKU
V9781421418568
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About Phillip G. Payne
Phillip G. Payne is a professor of history at St. Bonaventure University. He is the author of Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding's Scandalous Legacy.
Reviews for Crash!: How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
Comparing favorably with works by John Kenneth Galbraith, Frederick Lewis Allen, and Maury Klein, Crash! is an invaluable resource for students of history as well as economics. Essential.
Choice
Payne does what he sets out to do and he is to be credited for such a readable book (indeed I read it twice!).
EH.Net
Choice
Payne does what he sets out to do and he is to be credited for such a readable book (indeed I read it twice!).
EH.Net