The Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash: A Speculative Orgy or a New Era?

by Harold Bierman Jr.

Book Overview

Attempting to reveal the real causes of the 1929 stock market crash, Bierman refutes the popular belief that wild speculation had excessively driven up stock market prices and resulted in the crash. Although he acknowledges some prices of stocks such as utilities and banks were overprices, reasonable explanations exist for the level and increase of all other securities stock prices. Indeed, if stocks were overpriced in 1929, then they more even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031330629X
• ISBN13: 9780313306297
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"