The Edge of Chaos: Financial Booms, Bubbles, Crashes and ChaosWiley, 1997 M03 27 - 392 pages Spanning two centuries and across three continents (Europe, America and Asia), the author provides a fascinating history on some famous and not so famous financial events. Beginning with the 1720s Mississippi and South Sea Companies to the great global crashes of 1929 and 1987, Bernice Cohen provides us with a strategy for tracking market trends and cycles, and protecting our investments against the next financial crash. |
Contents
A Cascade of Crashes | 3 |
Chapter | 7 |
The Search for the Irrational Investor | 35 |
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America assets bank notes become behaviour bond boom borrowing Britain bubble bull market Butterfly Effect buyers Cantillon capital cash cent chain reaction chaos concepts chaos theory chaotic systems Chapter charts collapse complex created currency debt deflation dollar early economy edge of chaos emerging examples exchange fair value fall financial markets financial pump fractals France funds gains global growth holding huge Ian Stewart industrial inflation interest rates irrational investor issues James Gleick Japan Japanese Law's levels livres loans long-term losses major massive million Mississippi shares monetary Money Subscription money supply moving averages nonlinear occur October patterns peak phase transition positive feedback loop predict price rises profits random recognise Richard Cantillon rose scenario selling share price signals South Sea Bubble South Sea Company South Sea shares South Sea stock speculation stock market strange attractor structure tion trading trend trigger Wall Street