Research Guides: EC325 / FI325 Bubbles and Crises: A History of Financial Crises: Picking a Topic

The library has a variety of resources that you may use to help you pick a country or group of countries in financial crises that you have not discussed in-depth in class.

Discussed in class: Tulip Bubble (1636-37 Netherlands); South Sea Bubble (1720 South America and islands); Mississippi Bubble (1720 France), Panic of 1907 (US); Great Depression (1929-33 US); Great Recession (2008-09 US).

1) Books on the history of financial crises will give you summaries or overviews of several crises, for example:

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises by Charles P. Kindleberger; Robert Z. Aliber; Robert Solow (Foreword by)
Call Number: HB3722 .K56 2011
ISBN: 9780230365353
Click the link to see what crises are included as chapters in the book.
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
Call Number: HB3716 .Q56 2020
ISBN: 9781108421256
Booms, Bubbles and Busts in US Stock Markets
Call Number: HG4910 .W3827 2004 & ebook
ISBN: 0415369681
Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of the Treasury Since 1796
Call Number: HJ1030 .D38 2022
ISBN: 9781526159779
Global Financial Crises and Reforms by B. N. Ghosh (Editor)
Call Number: Online via Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780203187746
Publication Date: 2000-12-14
Click on the access via Ebook Central link to open this ebook. Click "Read Online." The table of contents is hyperlinked and you can search the text of the book by keyword.
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart; Kenneth S. Rogoff
Call Number: HB3722 .R45 2009
ISBN: 9780691142166
Publication Date: 2009-10-01
The Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History by Randall E. Parker (Editor); Robert M. Whaples (Editor)
Call Number: HB75 .R6748 2013
ISBN: 9780415677035

2) Academic resources (websites and scholarly journal articles) freely available through Google, for example:

Bubbles, Panics, & Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s
Provided by Harvard Business School, this website provides an overview of the major financial crashes in the U.S. Most helpful to you will be the "Research Links," which is a bibliography of sources used to create the website. The links connect to Harvard's library so you will need to check the Geisel Library to access the resources. See Melinda if you need help.
Bubbles & Crises - by Franklin Allen & Douglas Gale
The Introduction of this scholarly journal article by Allen and Gale provides an overview of many financial bubbles and crises across the globe.

3) Use NON-ACADEMIC websites with CAUTION. Use them to give you topic ideas, but don't rely on the information or sources they provide. Be sure critically evaluate the web sources you find and find additional academic sources to substantiate the information provided in these sources.

Wikipedia entry for "Economic Bubble"
Scroll to the bottom to see a list of "Examples of bubbles or purported bubbles." Then use the library's resources to find books and articles on these bubbles.