Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on February 10, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(1):175-177; doi:10.1093/es/khm019
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Mark Duckenfield, Stefan Altorfer, and Benedikt Koehler, eds. History of Financial Disasters, 17631995
Mark Duckenfield, Stefan Altorfer, and Benedikt Koehler, eds. History of Financial Disasters, 17631995. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006. 3 Volumes. ISBN-10: 1851968253, $495.00 (cloth)
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In a History of Financial Disasters, Stefan Altorfer has assembled a collection of contemporary accounts and journal articles to examine the history of financial crises since the eighteenth century. The collection is divided into three volumes with each chapter devoted to one financial crisis. The first volume examines important financial disasters prior to 1850, including early European financial crises in 1763 and 177273, and the Assignat Inflation during the French Revolution. This is followed by a discussion of the 19181919 crisis of the Second Bank of the United States, the London Crisis of 1825, the Panic
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