Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst

Author:   Vikram Mansharamani
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition:   2nd edition
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9781119575603


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   07 June 2019
Format:   Hardback
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The new, fully-updated edition of the respected guide to understanding financial extremes, evaluating investment opportunities, and identifying future bubbles Now in its second edition, Boombustology is an authoritative, up-to-date guide on the history of booms, busts, and financial cycles. Engaging and accessible, this popular book helps investors, policymakers, and analysts navigate the radical uncertainty that plagues today’s uncertain investing and economic environment. Author Vikram Mansharamani, an experienced global equity investor and prominent Harvard University lecturer, presents his multi-disciplinary framework for identifying financial bubbles before they burst. Moving beyond the typical view of booms and busts as primarily economic occurrences, this innovative book offers a multidisciplinary approach that utilizes microeconomic, macroeconomic, psychological, political, and biological lenses to spot unsustainable dynamics. It gives the reader insights into the dynamics that cause soaring financial markets to crash. Cases studies range from the 17th Century Dutch tulip mania to the more recent US housing collapse. The numerous cross-currents driving today’s markets—trade wars, inverted yield curves, currency wars, economic slowdowns, dangerous debt dynamics, populism, nationalism, as well as the general uncertainties in the global economy—demand that investors, policymakers, and analysts be on the lookout for a forthcoming recession, market correction, or worse. An essential resource for anyone interested in financial markets, the second edition of Boombustology: Adopts multiple lenses to understand the dynamics of booms, busts, bubbles, manias, crashes Utilizes the common characteristics of past bubbles to assist in identifying future financial extremes Presents a set of practical indicators that point to a financial bubble, enabling readers to gauge the likelihood of an unsustainable boom Offers two new chapters that analyze the long-term prospects for Indian markets and the distortions being caused by the passive investing boom Includes a new foreword by James Grant, legendary editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer A comprehensive exploration of how bubbles form and why they burst, Boombustology, 2nd Edition is packed with a wealth of new and updated information for individual and institutional investors, academics, students, policymakers, risk-managers, and corporate managers alike.

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Author:   Vikram Mansharamani
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9781119575603


ISBN 10:   1119575605
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   07 June 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Foreword Foreword to the First Edition Preface Is There a Bubble in Boom–Bust Books? Acknowledgments Introduction The Study of Financial Extremes: One-Armed Analysts, Secrets, and Mysteries Part I Five Lenses Chapter 1 Microeconomic Perspectives: To Equilibrium or Not? Chapter 2 Macroeconomic Perspectives: The Impact of Debt, Deflation, and Mispriced Money on Asset Markets Chapter 3 The Psychology Lens: Homo Economicus Meets Homo Sapiens Chapter 4 Political Foundations: Evaluating Property Rights, Price Mechanisms, and Political Distortions Chapter 5 Biological Frameworks: Epidemiology and Emergence Part II Historical Case Studies Chapter 6 Tulipomania: A Bubble in Seventeenth-Century Holland Chapter 7 The Great Depression: From Roaring Twenties to Yawning Thirties Chapter 8 The Japanese Boom and Bust: A Credit-Fueled Bubble Economy Chapter 9 The Asian Financial Crisis: The Mirage of a Miracle Chapter 10 The U.S. Housing Boom and Bust: The Homeowner’s Society Creates the People’s Panic Chapter 11 China’s Credit-Fueled Investment Boom Part III Looking Ahead Chapter 12 Spotting Bubbles Before They Burst: A Method for Identifying Unsustainable Booms Chapter 13 Boombustology in Action: Is India Next? Conclusion Hedgehogs, Foxes, and the Dangers of Making Predictions Addendum A Passive Investing Bubble? About the Author Index

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VIKRAM MANSHARAMANI is an experienced global equity investor and a lecturer at Harvard University. Previously, he taught a seminar called ""Financial Booms and Busts"" to undergraduates at Yale University. Mansharamani has a PhD and MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS in political science from the MIT Security Studies Program, and a BA from Yale University. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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