Boom Bust电子书

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Preface to the Second Edition

Prologue

PART I - As Safe as Houses?

1 - Britain’s Housing and the Business Cycle

§1 A Budget for Boom Bust

§2 Mystery of the Missing Recession

§3 The House Price Test

§4 The Taxing Challenge

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2 - Banking on Failure

§1 The Patterns of History

§2 Blame it on ‘Inflation’

§2 The Secret of 5% Compound

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3 - The American State of Virtual Reality

§1 New Economy, Old Alchemy

§2 Sky-High Rents

§3 The Economic Law of Absorption

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4 - The Incredible Alan Greenspan

§1 The Troubles with Bubbles

§2 The Colour of Money

§3 Oil on Troubled Waters

§4 Guardians of Our Minds

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PART II - Genesis of the Boom-Bust Cycle

5 - Rent and the 18-Year Cycle

§1 The Repetitive Syndrome

§2 Origins of the Land Market

§3 Terminating Societies

§4 The Chicago Plot

§5 The Unpublished Evidence

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6 - The Patterns of History

§1 The Get-Rich-Quick Schemes

§2 The Mid-Cycle Crises

§3 Speculation as Causation

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7 - The Alchemy of Land Speculation

§1 Loot I: Nature

§2 Loot II: Taxpayers

§3 Blame it on God

§4 The Costs of Carnage

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8 - The End of Boom Bust?

§1 A Doctrine of Despair

§2 Economic Metaphysicians

§3 A Little Local Difficulty?

§4 The Pursuits of Free-Riders

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PART III - Anatomy of the First Global Cycle

9 - The New Ecomony: Selling an Anglo-American Myth

§1 Hard-Wired Hard Sell

§2 The Titanic Doctrine

§3 The Theory of Public Property

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10 - Launched in the USA

§1 Debt and Destruction

§2 Predatory Finance

§3 The Risk Makers

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11 - Gordon Brown’s Magic Mantra

§1 Miss Prudence, I Presume?

§2 The Tax-Funded Hoax

§3 Building in the Crisis

§ 4 Back to 5%

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PART IV - The Automatic Stabiliser

12 - Counter-Cyclical Action

§1 The Language of Failure

§ 2 Self-Defeating Strategies

§3 The Counter-Cyclical Strategy

§4 The People’s Budget

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13 - Australia: The Pathology of Taxation

§1 A Land of Riches

§2 Land Values as Public Revenue

§3 The Politics of Failure

§4 The Pathology of Taxation

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14 - Dividends from Democratised Finance

§1 A New Social Contract

§2 The Pay-Off

§3 Routes to Disaster

§4 The End of Predatory Politics?

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PART V - The Reckoning

15 - 2007: From Peak to Downwave

§1 The Alchemy of Debt

§2 Delusion: Sub-prime Borrowers

§3 The Correction

§4 The Policy Panic

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16 - 2010: Economics of the Debt Junkie

§1 From Recession to Depression

§2 ‘Rockpools of Joblessness’

§3 Tooling-up the Next Cycle

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