Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface Is There A Bubble In Boom-Bust Books? -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The Study of Financial Extremes: One-Armed Analysts, Secrets, and Mysteries -- Secrets vs. Mysteries -- Different Problems Necessitate Different Approaches...

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