This Time is Different : Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

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 world have been borrowing breathtaking amounts of money and (2) the central banks in those countries ha...

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 is written for readers with a general knowledge of economics, and the authors suggest those primari...

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 weakness. Its great collection and presentation of empiric crisis data makes the missing data on th...

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 statistics of financial crises throughout history. Some are from the 13th century, yes, but the bulk of the...