World-renowned economist Galbraith, the bestselling author of The Affluent Society, reviews great speculative booms of the last three centuries, including the junk-bond follies of the 1980s.
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 ..
Entertaining in its instructiveness.--The Boston Globe.
With wisdom and wit, he shows how the lessons of History can help us avoid Financial calamity.
World-renowned economist Galbraith, the bestselling author of The Affluent Society, reviews great speculative booms of the last three centuries, including the junk-bond follies of the 1980s