List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877); Asa Briggs 2. Bank of England; Charles. A. E. Goodhart 3. Banking Crises; Charles W. Calomiris 4. Bubbles; Markus K. Brunnermeier 5. Bubbles in History; Charles P. Kindleberger 6. Capital Controls; Kristin J. Forbes 7. Credit Crunch Chronology: April 2007 - September 2009 8. The Statesman's Yearbook Team 9. Credit Rating Agencies; Joel Shapiro 10. Currency Crises; Graciela Laura Kaminsky 11. Currency Crises Models; Craig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio Rebelo 12. Euro Zone Crisis 2010; Daniel Gros and Cinzia Alcidi 13. Federal Reserve System; Donald. D. Hester 14. Greek Crisis in Perspective: Origins, Effects and Ways-out; Nicos Christodoulakis 15. Great Depression; Peter Temin 16. Great Depression, Monetary and Financial Forces; Satyajit Chatterjee and P. Dean Corbae 17. International Monetary Fund; Brett House, David Vines and W. Max Corden, Kindleberger, Charles P. (1910-2003), Peter Temin 18. Laboratory Financial Markets; Daniel Friedman 19. Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, What Lessons can be Drawn?; Thomas J. Fitzpatrick IV and James B. Thomson 20. Liquidity Trap; Gauti B. Eggertsson 21. Minsky Crisis; L. Randall Wray 22. Quantitative Easing by the Major Western Central Banks During the Global Financial Crisis; J. Ashworth 23. The Run on Northern Rock; C. A. E. Goodhart 24. Shadow Banking: A Review of the Literature; Tobias Adrian and Adam B. Ashcraft 25. South Sea Bubble; Hans-Joachim Voth 26. the Subprime Mortgage Crisis; Christopher L. Foote and Paul S. Willen 27. Tulipmania; Peter Garber 28. Banking Industry; Dario Focarelli and Alberto Franco Pozzolo 29. Gold Standard; Lawrence H. Officer 30. International Monetary Institutions; Stanley W. Black, Law, John (1671-1729), Michael D. Bordo 31. New Deal; Price V. Fishback 32. Speculative Bubbles; Miguel A. Iraola and Manuel S. Santos Index.