| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 424 pages) : illustrations |
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Agora Series |
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Agora Series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-412) and index. |
| Summary |
Collectively, people think and act in ways very different from how they think and act as individuals. Author Bonner has long been a maverick observer of the financial and political world, sharpening his sardonic wit, in particular, on the vagaries of the investing public. Market booms and busts, tulip manias and dotcom bubbles, venture capitalists and vulture funds, he lets you know, are best explained not by dry statistics and obscure theories but by the metaphors and analogies of literature. Here, Bonner and freelance journalist Rajiva use literary economics to offer broader insights into mass behavior and its devastating effects on society. They end by giving concrete advice on how readers can avoid what the authors call the "public spectacle" of modern finance, and become, instead, "private" investors--knowing their own mind and following their own intuitions.--From publisher description |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Do-gooders gone bad -- Ch. 2. Love in the time of Viagra -- Ch. 3. The transit of Venus -- Ch. 4. The devil made them do it -- Ch. 5. Words of war -- Ch. 6. War and remembrance -- Ch. 7. Empire of delusion -- Ch. 8. Heroes of the revolution -- Ch. 9. The number game -- Ch. 10. The Flat Earth Society -- Ch. 11. What the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo didn't know -- Ch. 12. Fin de bubble -- Ch. 13. The million-dollar trailer -- Ch. 14. Central bank bamboozle -- Ch. 15. The mother of the mother of all bubbles -- Ch. 16. How not to be chumped by Wall Street -- Ch. 17. The dupe of hearts. |
| Subject |
Finance -- Corrupt practices.
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Political corruption.
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Collective behavior.
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Delusions.
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Right and wrong.
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Delirium.
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Finances -- Pratiques déloyales. |
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Corruption (Politique) |
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Comportement collectif. |
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Délire. |
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Rectitude. |
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Delirium |
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Collective behavior |
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Delusions |
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Finance -- Corrupt practices |
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Political corruption |
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Right and wrong |
| Added Author |
Rajiva, Lila.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bonner, William, 1948- Mobs, messiahs, and markets. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2007 9780470112328 0470112328 (DLC) 2007012349 (OCoLC)104883465 |
| ISBN |
9780470177341 (electronic bk.) |
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0470177349 (electronic bk.) |
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1280957107 |
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9781280957109 |
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(cloth) |
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