Financial Crises - Paperbackby Kindleberger (Author), Charles P. Kindleberger (Editor), Jean Pierre Laffargue (Editor) What can or should be done to ward off or alleviate the effect of financial crises? The papers in this book examine this question, focusing on particular crises, notably those of 1836, 1873, 1920 and 1929. Based on a historical consideration of the nature and propagation of financial crises, the major theoretical issues raised by the contributors centre on