Great financial disasters of our time /:

Great financial disasters are not a new phenomenon. Probably the first well documented financial disaster was the so-called Tulipmania in the Netherlands in the 1630s, some 300 years before the Wall Street crash. At the end of the twentieth century a similar phenomenon occurred. This time it has tak...

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1. Verfasser: Peachey, Alan N.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Mortsel : Intersentia, ©2011.
Ausgabe:3., überarbeitete Aufl.
Schriftenreihe:Neue betriebswirtschaftliche Studienbücher.
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Zusammenfassung:Great financial disasters are not a new phenomenon. Probably the first well documented financial disaster was the so-called Tulipmania in the Netherlands in the 1630s, some 300 years before the Wall Street crash. At the end of the twentieth century a similar phenomenon occurred. This time it has taken the form of shares in companies trading on the Internet (i.e. new technology), the so-called dotcom companies. These events had one thing in common; they were spawned by the new technology of the time and fed by that one great human failing - the triumph of hope over reality, which some people wo.
Beschreibung:Includes index.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (679 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9783830526513
3830526512