Boom and BustWilliam Quinn, John D. Turner
Boom and Bust
by William Quinn, John D. Turner · first published 2020
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For a more recent and way more reliable book on economics mania I would suggest “Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles” by William Quinn and John D. Turner https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48989633-boom-and-bust
on “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” ↗…well-known stories about this were actually made up, and it wasn't as bad as it is often made out to be. Quinn and Turner, when they wrote about bubbles: * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48989633-boom-and-bust * https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/i2wfsm/i_am_... purposefully excluded it because their research found it wasn't actually a thing. (Though for the general public it can be an illustrative…
on “Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’” ↗When Quinn and Turner wrote their book Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles they concluded Tulipmania was not a bubble and so did't include it: * https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48989633-boom-and-bus... Quinn did an AMA when the…
on “Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house” ↗