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- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Financial Crises: a Hardy Perennial
- 2 The Anatomy of a Typical Crisis
- 3 Speculative Manias
- 4 Fueling the Flames: the Expansion of Credit
- 5 The Critical Stage – When the Bubble Is About To Pop
- 6 Euphoria and Paper Wealth
- 7 Bernie Madoff: Frauds, Swindles, and the Credit Cycle
- 8 International Contagion 1618-1930
- 9 Bubble Contagion: Mexico City to Tokyo to Bangkok to New York, London, and Reykjavik
- 10 Euromania and Eurocrash
- 11 Policy Responses: Benign Neglect, Exhortation, and Bank Holidays
- 12 The Domestic Lender of Last Resort
- 13 The International Lender of Last Resort
- 14 The Lehman Panic – An Avoidable Crash
- 15 The Lessons of History
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Afterword
- Index
