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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 330
EAN: 9780140136098
ISBN: 0140136096
Label: Penguin Books
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 1998-10
Publisher: Penguin Books
Sales Rank: 815335
Studio: Penguin Books



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Product Description:
This work examines the 'gold-rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom, the operations of Insull, Kreuger and Hatry, and the Shandoah Corporation all come together in Galbraith's study of concerted human greed and folly.

Amazon.com Review:
Rampant speculation. Record trading volumes. Assets bought not because of their value but because the buyer believes he can sell them for more in a day or two, or an hour or two. Welcome to the late 1920s. There are obvious and absolute parallels to the great bull market of the late 1990s, writes Galbraith in a new introduction dated 1997. Of course, Galbraith notes, every financial bubble since 1929 has been compared to the Great Crash, which is why this book has never been out of print since it became a bestseller in 1955.

Galbraith writes with great wit and erudition about the perilous actions of investors, and the curious inaction of the government. He notes that the problem wasn't a scarcity of securities to buy and sell; "the ingenuity and zeal with which companies were devised in which securities might be sold was as remarkable as anything." Those words become strikingly relevant in light of revenue-negative start-up companies coming into the market each week in the 1990s, along with fragmented pieces of established companies, like real estate and bottling plants. Of course, the 1920s were different from the 1990s. There was no safety net below citizens, no unemployment insurance or Social Security. And today we don't have the creepy investment trusts--in which shares of companies that held some stocks and bonds were sold for several times the assets' market value. But, boy, are the similarities spooky, particularly the prevailing trend at the time toward corporate mergers and industry consolidations--not to mention all the partially informed people who imagined themselves to be financial geniuses because the shares of stock they bought kept going up. --Lou Schuler



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Beautifully written history of Great Crash told with wit.
Gailbraith's book is an insightful and witty history of the Great Crash of 1929. Though written years ago it seems as if it could have been written yestereday and there are many parallels of course with the economic "meltdown" that is going on around us. I can't really fault the book as it is about the Great Crash, but I wish there were more about the long depression that followed and the path to recovery.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great Book
Very interesting book, and well written.
There are some sad truths reveled, herein.
Scary to understand the similarities between then and now (1999 to 2008).





Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Can Americans Learn from History?
The Great Crash 1929
By John Kenneth Galbraith
The writing is surprisingly charming and readable; one senses that the author would be a gracious person. His 200-page description of the Wall Street crash is clear and as interesting as a story about financial history can be; much of it is necessarily a simple chronicle of the rise and fall of the various big stocks in that period. He describes the principal actors of the time--recognizable names like Mellon and Astor and JP Morgan--and ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Essential, Elegant Book on The Great Depression
Author John Gailbreath's extraordinary book on The Great Depression is a fascinating read for both the occasional reader who simply wants to know more about a period in which Americans struggled mightily to lift themselves from an extremely difficult economic collapse - and for the professional in any economic/financial field (who should consider it required reading!) Lucid, brilliant, sometimes wryly funny, always accurate, it is one of Nobel Prize-winning Gailbreath's finest works. DO GET IT ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - ...it was the worst of times
I keep this book around to read occasionally. My edition has a printing history going back to 1954. The stock market crash is a point in history that I've tried to understand. mmm...the bankers kept pumping money into the system...until they couldn't do it anymore. Who were these people and how did this happen? Well, today I picked it up again.

According to Galbraith, the US economy was already in a Depression by October 1929 as the stock market reacts to the economy and never ... Read More


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