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This profile is under construction.

In the interim insights about the dot-com bubble are provided in Irrational Exuberance (Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 00) by Robert Shiller, The Internet Bubble (New York: HarperCollins 99) by Anthony Perkins & Michael Perkins, The Coming Internet Depression: Why The High-Tech Boom Will Go Bust ... (New York: Basic Books 00) by Michael Mandel, the 2001 A Rude Awakening: Internet Shakeout in 2000 by Elizabeth Demers & Baruch Lev (PDF).

For a technical discussion of behavioural finance see in particular Andrei Schleifer's Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioural Finance (Oxford: Oxford Uni Press 00) and Bertrand Roehner's Patterns of Speculation (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni Press 02). There's a more accessible account in James Montier's Behavioural Finance - Insights into Irrational Minds and Markets (New York: Wiley 02), Sian Owen's 2002 Behavioural Finance and the Decision to Invest in High Tech Stocks (PDF) and Hersch Shefrin's Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing ( Boston: Harvard Business School Press 00)

Historical perspectives are available in works such as Peter Garber's Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias (Cambridge: MIT Press 00), Charles Kindleberger's classic Manias, Panics & Crashes: A History of Financial Crashes (New York: Wiley 93), Carlota Perez' Technological Revolutions & Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles & Golden Ages (Cheltenham: Elgard 02), Mitchel Abolafia's Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 96) and Cedric Cowing's Populists, Plungers & Progressives: A Social History of Stock & Commodity Speculation, 1890-1936 (Princeton: Princeton Uni Press 65).


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version of January 2003