A Short History of Financial Euphoria..., John Kenneth Galbraith
A Short History of Financial Euphoria..., John Kenneth Galbraith
List: $12.99 | Sale: $9.10
Club: $6.49

A Short History of Financial Euphoria

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith

Narrator: Liam Gerrard

Unabridged: 2 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/19/2022


Synopsis

The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds." —The Atlantic.

With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy over the last three centuries. Exposing the ways in which normally sane people display reckless behavior in pursuit of profit, Galbraith asserts that our "notoriously short" financial memory is what creates the conditions for market collapse. By recognizing these signs and understanding what causes them we can guard against future recessions and have a better hold on our country's (and our own) financial destiny.

About John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith was born in 1908 in Ontario, Canada. He earned a PhD at the University of California in 1934 and later took a fellowship at Cambridge, where he first encountered Keynesian economics. At different points in his life he taught at both Harvard and Princeton, and wrote more than forty books on an array of economic topics. During World War II he served as deputy head of the Office of Price Administration, charged with preventing inflation from crippling the war efforts, and also served as the US Ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. He passed away in 2006.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel on August 02, 2018

This is the second book I've read in a short time about financial manias, and it's an important one. The book was written in the early 90s at a time when the junk bond bubble had collapsed. The book is short, simple, and intelligent. It also comes from a sensible left-of-center perspective that I fe......more

Goodreads review by Erik on April 10, 2024

I've always enjoyed Galbraith, with the exception of his mediocre fiction and account of his work for our State Department in 'Ambassador's Journal'. Indeed, during Dave Schweickart's course on Socialism and Capitalism at Loyola University, when the class was divided between those interested in Marx......more

Goodreads review by Ian on January 11, 2022

so you're saying i /shouldn't/ convert all my savings to ethereum?......more

Goodreads review by Tuncay on April 11, 2025

Kitabın en en en net mesajı: Hayır, tüm varlıklarınla tabii ki bitcoin almamalısın 😊 Detayı ise: Finansal piyasaların belli dönemlerle şişmesi ve patlaması döngüsü konu ediliyor. Farklı tarihlerde farklı coğrafyalarda yaşanan finansal çöküşlerin hem tarihçesi hem de nedenleri sunuluyor. Bunların en......more

Goodreads review by Haaris on November 28, 2020

Reading massive tomes at the moment so this book came as a welcome change. It's a fast recap of major economic crises over the past 500 years. Galbraith argues there are three commonalities behind all these events -- leverage, mass delusion, and scapegoating. The first two represent the exuberant up......more