A Short History of Financial Euphoria – John Kenneth Galbraith

In this book, Galbraith rounds up instances of financial booms and busts, starting from the Tuliopomania in the mid-1630s to the stock market crash in 1987. He cites two primary factors as being the cause of this financial euphoria: the brevity of financial memory and the association of wealth with intelligence. About the former, Galbraith [...]