As the world enjoyed the prosperity of an unparalleled boom, an economic earthquake was looming, and then struck abruptly. Bastions of finance collapsed, long-s

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The author of "The Age of Diminished Expectations" returns with a sobering tour of the global economic crises of the last two years.

John Kenneth Galbraith's classic study of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.