The Great Mirror of Folly Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720 William N. Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Timothy Young, Robert Shiller
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- Series:
- Yale Series in Economic and Financial History
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 26 Nov 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300162462
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 360 pages: 305 x 229 x 29mm
- Illustrations:
- 240 color + 15 b-w illus.
- Sales territories:
- World
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“As global as anything could be in its time, the financial collapse of 1720 elicits a multidisciplinary approach from authors magnificently skilled in art, economic, social, and book histories. Would that our own economic crises will one day produce erudition of this quality, in a volume that pleases both the mind and the eye.”--Margaret C. Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA
"Will we ever grasp that a dynamic society sometimes flops? Judging from this ravishing display of financial folly from three centuries ago, and the illuminating modern commentary, it doesn’t look like it." - Deirdre N. McCloskey, author of Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World (2010)
"The most visually stunning and. . . one of the most important investing books of the past year."—Jason Zweig, Wall Street Journal
“This is a wonderful book about an extraordinary work, Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid (The Great Mirror of Folly) . . . . a giant piece of satire aimed at denigrating the greed and hubris of the speculators of 1720 . . . . This is a book of great scholarship . . . that should adorn the shelves of all those interested in money, banking, financial innovation, bubbles and the behavior of people during asset market crashes.”—Antoine H. Murphy, EH.net
“Beautifully produced . . . admirably coherent . . . generally impressive.”?American Historical Review
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