Spotton Visano Brenda <br/><br/>
Financial crises :  socio-economic causes and institutional context / 
Brenda Spotton Visano. 
 - London :  Routledge,  2006. 
 - xvi, 144 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - Routledge studies in the modern world economy ;  57 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>An introduction to the evolution of financial fragility -- Illustrations of manias, panics, and crises -- Capitalism: a culture of accumulation as the context for innovation -- The impact of uncertainty on (in)forming behaviour -- Conventional approaches: speculation as a fool's paradise -- Justifications and means: the institutional organisation of speculation -- The other side of the coin: the influence of credit creation and banks on speculation -- Recoil in crisis: from peak to panic -- Societies in transition: time-space comparisons of financial instability -- The bottom line: towards institutional indicators of financial fragility -- Evolving financial crises: reflections and projections. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415362870 0415362873 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Financial crises<br/>Finance
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB3722 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332/.042