Mobs, messiahs, and markets surviving the public spectacle in finance and politics

Why Going Against the Grain Pays. Bestselling author Bill 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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bonner, William, 1948- author (author), Rajiva, Lila, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley [2007]
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Agora Series
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627001306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • MOBS, MESSIAHS, AND MARKETS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; Part I: A Critique of Impure Reason; Chapter 1: DO-GOODERS GONE BAD; Chapter 2: LOVE IN THE TIME OF VIAGRA; Chapter 3: THE TRANSIT OF VENUS; Part II: Witch Hunts and War Drums; Chapter 4: THE DEVIL MADE THEM DO IT; Chapter 5: WORDS OF WAR; Part III: Militant Messiahs; Chapter 6: WAR AND REMEMBRANCE; Chapter 7: EMPIRE OF DELUSION; Chapter 8: HEROES OF THE REVOLUTION; Part IV: Flattening the Globe; Chapter 9: THE NUMBER GAME; Chapter 10: THE FLAT EARTH SOCIETY; Chapter 11: WHAT THE YONGHY-BONGHY-BO DIDN'T KNOW
  • Part V: The Bubble KingsChapter 12: FIN DE BUBBLE; Chapter 13: THE MILLION-DOLLAR TRAILER; Chapter 14: CENTRAL BANK BAMBOOZLE; Chapter 15: THE MOTHER OF THE MOTHER OF ALL BUBBLES; Part VI: Far from the Madding Mob; Chapter 16: HOW NOT TO BE CHUMPED BY WALL STREET; Chapter 17: THE DUPE OF HEARTS; NOTES; INDEX;