A Short History of Financial Euphoria

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Describes a 20 year cycle where each new generation experiences 'mass euphoria', 'mass insanity' and 'mass escape from sanity'. Well written, and brief; but Gailbraith manages to cover 400 years of financial history without describing any of the commodity bull market manias.