Markets, Mobs and Mayhem by Robert Menschel
A tour through cultural, global, economic, and business history. It explores the phenomenon of crowd psychology and its effects on business and culture. Explaining how crowd psychology creates market bubbles and irrational exuberance, it mines world history to reveal how the behavior of crowds negatively affects the business world.
"..a collection of vignetttes, stories, proverbs and quotations laced with sound advice for avoiding the stampedes that can be triggered in a volatile marketplace..." (Financial Times, 4 July 2002) "is a timely, intelligent and amusing study of peer pressure's extreme capabilities." (Publishers Weekly, September 23, 2002)
ROBERT MENSCHEL is Senior Director of the Goldman Sachs Group and founder of its institutional investment department. He is on the Boards of Trustees of The New York Public Library, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and was a member of President Clinton's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. WILLIAM SAFIRE writes about language, politics, and society for the New York Times. His column appears twice weekly and on Sunday.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780471233275 |
| ISBN 10 | 0471233277 |
| Title | Markets, Mobs and Mayhem |
| Author | Robert Menschel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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