Great financial disasters of our time /

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Author / Creator:	Peachey, Alan N.
Edition:	3., überarbeitete Aufl.
Imprint:	Mortsel : Intersentia, ©2011.
Description:	1 online resource (679 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Neue Betriebswirtschaftliche Studienbücher ; v. 21 Neue betriebswirtschaftliche Studienbücher.
Subject:	Financial crises. Business cycles. Business cycles. Financial crises.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675612

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ISBN:	9783830526513 3830526512 9783830518693 3830518692 9789400002203 9400002203
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes index. English.
Summary:	Great financial disasters are not a new phenomenon. Probably the first well documented financial disaster was the so-called Tulipmania in the Netherlands in the 1630s, some 300 years before the Wall Street crash. At the end of the twentieth century a similar phenomenon occurred. This time it has taken the form of shares in companies trading on the Internet (i.e. new technology), the so-called dotcom companies. These events had one thing in common; they were spawned by the new technology of the time and fed by that one great human failing - the triumph of hope over reality, which some people wo.
Other form:	3-8305-1869-2

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