Description: This book explores the period from World War I through the 1920s in order to answer the question: did a financial "bubble" form, and if so, could it have been anticipated? Using new data and over 100 years of stock market returns, real-life models used by investors and modern research, the author investigates what drove stocks up and then caused them to crash.
Review Quotes: "Kabiri's book provides a synthesis of the debates on the 1929 crash but also a new set of tests built on both existing and newly collected data to understand which forces drove the stock market to levels reached in the 1920s ... . book contributes to behavioral economics, estimating the rationality of the rise and fall in stock prices during the boom and bust as well as to history of economic thought, detailing financial theories and methods of the 1920s." (Raphaël Hekimian, EH Net, eh.net, August, 2015)