A brief history of doom : two hundred years of financial crises /
Richard Vague.
- ix, 227 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue -- Introduction: The Anatomy of a Financial Crisis -- Chapter 1 A Jazz Age Real Estate Crisis: The Great Depression -- Chapter 2 The Decade of Greed: The 1980s -- Chapter 3 Denial and Forbearance: The 1990s Crisis in Japan -- Chapter 4 The Dawn of the Industrial Age Banking Crisis: 1819-1840 -- Chapter 5 The Railroad Crises Era: 1847-1907 -- Chapter 6 The 2008 Global Mortgage and Derivatives Crisis -- Conclusion: The Crisis Next Time-and Policy Solutions.