Boombustology : Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst / Vikram Mansharamani, PhD.

Author/creator Mansharamani, Vikram author.
Format Book
Publication InfoHoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2011], ©2011.
Descriptionxxiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Business cycles.
Financial crises.
Business forecasting.

Variant title Boom Bust Ology
Contents Is there a bubble in boom-bust books? -- The study of financial extremes : one-armed analysts, secrets, mysteries -- Microeconomic perspectives : to equilibrium or not? -- Macroeconomic perspectives : the impact of debt and deflation on asset markets and prices -- The psychology lens : Homo economicus meets Homo sapiens -- Political foundations : evaluating property rights, price mechanisms, and political distortions -- Biological frameworks : epidemiology and emergence -- Tulipomania : a bubble in seventeenth-century Holland -- The Great Depression : from roaring twenties to yawning thirties -- The Japanese boom and bust : a credit-fueled bubble economy -- The Asian financial crisis : the mirage of a miracle -- The U.S. housing boom and bust : the homeowner's society creates the people's panic -- Spotting bubbles before they burst : a method for identifying unsustainable booms -- Boombustology in action : is China next? -- Hedgehogs, foxes, and the dangers of making predictions.
Abstract "The book makes an argument that booms and busts are not random and can therefore be identified. It's structured similarly to how the course at Yale by Mansharamani has been taught. The first third of the book focuses upon various theoretical and disciplinary lenses useful in the study of booms and busts. The second third of the book evaluates historical cases of financial booms and busts via those lenses. The final third of the book summarizes the findings from part two and develops a profile for a typical financial bubble. The book concludes with a framework for thinking about and identifying forthcoming financial extremes and a discussion of various candidates for the "next bubble.""-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
LCCN 2010045668
ISBN9780470879467
ISBN0470879467
Standard identifier# 3601079

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HB3711 .M354 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold