ForewordForeword to the First EditionPreface Is There a Bubble in Boom-Bust Books?AcknowledgmentsIntroduction The Study of Financial Extremes: One-Armed Analysts, Secrets, and MysteriesPart I Five LensesChapter 1 Microeconomic Perspectives: To Equilibrium or Not?Chapter 2 Macroeconomic Perspectives: The Impact of Debt, Deflation, and Mispriced Money on Asset MarketsChapter 3 The Psychology Lens: Homo Economicus Meets Homo SapiensChapter 4 Political Foundations: Evaluating Property Rights, Price Mechanisms, and Political DistortionsChapter 5 Biological Frameworks: Epidemiology and EmergencePart II Historical Case StudiesChapter 6 Tulipomania: A Bubble in Seventeenth-Century HollandChapter 7 The Great Depression: From Roaring Twenties to Yawning ThirtiesChapter 8 The Japanese Boom and Bust: A Credit-Fueled Bubble EconomyChapter 9 The Asian Financial Crisis: The Mirage of a MiracleChapter 10 The U.S. Housing Boom and Bust: The Homeowner's Society Creates the People's PanicChapter 11 China's Credit-Fueled Investment BoomPart III Looking AheadChapter 12 Spotting Bubbles Before They Burst: A Method for Identifying Unsustainable BoomsChapter 13 Boombustology in Action: Is India Next?Conclusion Hedgehogs, Foxes, and the Dangers of Making PredictionsAddendum A Passive Investing Bubble?About the AuthorIndex
VIKRAM MANSHARAMANI is an experienced global equity investor and a lecturer at Harvard University. Previously, he taught a seminar called "Financial Booms and Busts" to undergraduates at Yale University. Mansharamani has a PhD and MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS in political science from the MIT Security Studies Program, and a BA from Yale University. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.