TY - BOOK AU - Spotton Visano Brenda TI - Financial crises: socio-economic causes and institutional context SN - 9780415362870 AV - HB3722 U1 - 332/.042 PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Financial crises KW - Finance N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005022974.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2005022974-d.html ER -