Manias, Panics, and Crashes

Foreword - Robert Solow 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 Afterword - Lord Robert Skidelsky