| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Duer's disgrace -- A botanizing excursion -- Monkey jackets, the uncorked Mississippi, and the birth of caterpillar banks -- The second bank, the monkey jacket war, and Tenskwatawa's revenge -- The politics of panic, the economics of rags -- Leviathan -- Of swamps and calculus -- Ceres Americana -- A storm of wheat -- Crosses of gold -- Who put the roar in the Roaring Twenties? -- Conclusions, conclusions -- Here be dragons. |
| Summary |
A history of financial crashes in the United States offers concise explanations of little-understood principles about consumer debt that were at the core of each recession, recounting lending practices and schemes that triggered large-scale crashes and controversies. |
| Subject |
Financial crises -- United States -- History.
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Recessions -- United States -- History.
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Depressions -- History.
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United States -- Economic conditions.
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| Added Title |
Deadbeats |
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Nation of dead beats |
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Dead beats |
| ISBN |
9780307272690 hardback $27.95 |
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0307272699 hardback |
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