This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Paperback)

from browner56

It is hard to imagine that anyone with even the slightest awareness of economic issues has failed to notice two things that have occurred over the last several years: (1) governments around the wor...

from walbat

This book has been widely praised for its quantitative analysis of financial crises going back 100 years or more, which it uses to put our own current (and very serious) crisis into perspective. It...

from jcbrunner

"This time is different" offers the data necessary to point out, sorry, you're not so special. I love the books many data tables that include countless stories untold, which is also the book's main...

from denmoir

Not the ideal book for the electronic format as the numerous tables are hard to read. The content, however, is very good

from HadriantheBlind

This book is a joy if you're the kind of person who likes good statistics and qualitative reasoning. One hundred pages of appendices alone! It's almost beautiful. A painstaking analysis of statist...