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Economic Crises & Financial History
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| 100 Years of Wall Street |
| GEISST, Charles & GRASSO, Richard | 1999 | 0071356193 | Excitement. Chaos. Embezzlement. Imprisonment.
Injury and Deaths. Monumental Transactions. Legendary Fortunes.
Catastrophic Losses. Notorious Characters. A script from "Dallas"?
No, just a description of Wall Street!
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| Big Bets Gone Bad: Derivatives and Bankruptcy in Orange County |
| JORION, Philippe & ROPER, Robert | 1995 | 0123903602 |
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| Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893 |
| STEEPLES, Douglas & WHITTEN, David | 1998 | 0313279438 |
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| Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation |
| CHANCELLOR, Edward | 1999 | 0452281806 |
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| The Edge of Chaos: Financial Booms, Bubbles, Crashes, and Chaos |
| COHEN, Bernice | 1997 | 0471972371 |
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| Eyewitness to Wall Street: 400 Years of Dreamers, Schemers, Busts, and Booms |
| COLBERT, David | 2001 | 0767906608 |
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| F.I.A.S.C.O. |
| PARTNOY, Frank | 1999 | 0140278796 |
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| Famous First Bubbles |
| GARBER, Peter | 2000 | 0262072041 |
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| The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60's |
| BROOKS, John | 1973 | 0471357553 | A good account of how 60's phenomena like the youth
movement, money gunslingers, and mutual funds all shaped the financial markets,
and how the markets ultimately went over the edge of the cliff in the early
70's.
"John Brooks may very well be the best historian of high and low finance since Charles Francis Adams and his brother Henry chronicled the rascalities of Jim Fisk, Jay Gould , Daniel Drew and Cornelius Vanderbilt more than a century ago." -- Yale Law Review
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| Great Bubbles |
| EMMETT, Ross B. | 2000 | 1851965254 |
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| The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653 - 2000 |
| GORDON, John Steele | 1999 | 0684832879 |
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| A History of Interest Rates |
| HOMER, Sidney & SYLLA, Richard | 1977 | 0813522889 |
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| In the Market: the Illustrated World History of Financial Markets |
| FINCH, Christopher & ANGELO, John M. | 2001 | 0789200147 |
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| Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behin |
| DUNBAR, Nicholas | 1999 | 0471899992 |
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| It Was a Very Good Year: Extraordinary Moments in Stock Market History |
| FRIDSON, Martin | 1997 | 0471383805 |
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| Millionaire: John Law -- The True Story of the Philanderer, Gambler, and Killer |
| GLEESON, Janet | 2000 | 0684872951 |
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| The Mississippi Bubble |
| HOUGH, Emerson | 1902 | 1589638816 |
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| Panic on Wall Street: a History of America's Financial Disasters |
| SOBEL, Robert | 1968 | 1893122468 |
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| The Trouble with Prosperity: A Contrarian's Tale of Boom, Bust, and Speculation |
| GRANT, James | 1998 | 0812929918 |
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| Tulipomania |
| DASH, Mike | 2000 | 0783895143 |
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| When Genius Failed: the Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management |
| LOWENSTEIN, Roger | 2000 | 037550317X |
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| Where are the Customers' Yachts? A Good Hard Look at Wall Street |
| SCHWED, Fred | 1960 | 0471119784 |
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1920's, 1930's & the Great Depression