Bubbles and crashes : the boom and bust of technological innovation /

Goldfarb, Brent,

Bubbles and crashes : the boom and bust of technological innovation / Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Bubbles and non-bubbles across time -- Uncertainty and narratives -- Novices, naïfs, and biases -- When are there not bubbles? -- Recent and future bubbles -- Policy implications.

This book provides new insight into speculative booms and busts by examining the emergence of major technological innovations and their influence on the market over a 150-year period. The authors pinpoint three factors that create bubbles, make projections about bubbles that are in the works, and offer guidelines for investors and policymakers to help sidestep future episodes.



9781503607934

2018040063


Technological innovations--Economic aspects.
Business cycles.


Electronic Books.

HC79 / .B833 2019