Boom Bust: House Prices, Banking and the Depression of 2010

by Fred Harrison

Book Overview

Using the United Kingdom as a case study, this well-researched account shows how, for more than 200 years, a remarkably regular 18-year cycle of boom and bust can be traced to the peaks and troughs in land prices. This exploration reveals how governments, during the upswing of the cycle, are complicit in encouraging a belief that property prices will continue upwards indefinitely because of their skilled management of the economy and attributes the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0856832545
• ISBN13: 9780856832543
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"