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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mortsel :
Intersentia,
©2011.
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| Edición: | 3., überarbeitete Aufl. |
| Colección: | Neue betriebswirtschaftliche Studienbücher.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (679 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783830526513 3830526512 |