Book Reviews

Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

Review by Roger Lawson Avoiding buying into the peak of booms and selling at the bottom of a bust is one of key skills of any investor. But what causes them? The recently published book entitled “Boom and Bust” by academics William Quinn and John D. Turner attempts to answer that question by a close analysis of historical market manias. I found it a rather slow read to begin with but it proved to be a very thorough and interesting review of the ...