Panic, Prosperity, and Progress 1st Edition

I have found this book to be a very interesting, well-researched and well written historical and critical account of the financial and investment markets through the centuries. In a way I have found it to be the ideal continuation of the work of Charles Mackay in "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" and that is a compliment in my view, because Mackay's book is outdated while the author here covered all the ground until the most recent financial crisis.This is a book that should be on the desk of anyone that wants to see the historical, long-term big picture of boom and bust cycles in financial markets, if you are a fund manager, an investor, a quantitative researcher or a trader, studying this book will provide you with a fundamental insight into the workings of market cycles through the last few centuries, as it seems too many only focus on the last 10-15 years and tend to ignore what has happened and what can happen again.Highly recommended.

From the tulip craze of the 1630s to the crash of 2008, Panic, Prosperity, and Progress highlights one fact - human nature is constant. Financial go-getters always strive for more, working their way to positions of power, and then abuse that power to the point of collapse or revolt.I expect an updated Panic, Prosperity, and Progress in a few years that will catalog even more tales of market excess and mass financial hysteria.It will be an encyclopedic text, a one-stop text worthy of anyone's top-10 financial library.Tim Knight has developed as a writer, blending more art and nuance with his early factual content writing skills, and making that human connection that only the best writers master.

Tim Knight has done a fantastic job complying a historic frame work of the mass delusions of crowds, and investment insanity. The book covers over Five Centuries of bubble like events where this time "ITS DIFFERENT" very easy and well written read. The book leaves the reader with the a healthy dose of reality and those who do not study history will be domed to repeat it. Worth a read for any fan or student of financial markets.Think Tank LLC

Very enjoyable. Illusion of knowledge and illusion of control and the chaos they reap over and again. Now write a book how to see the bubble, hear the bell, and protect family and friend frominflation,deflation, communist,fascist,and bankrupt government. Disclosure: I watch your segment on tastytrade every day and figured you were a genius, but I can't believe a Southern boy would ever use the word zeitgeist .

Tim Knight is one of the very few financial people I follow on Twitter @slopeofhope. I rarely miss his 15 minute segment on Tastytrade's Last Call. When I saw he had a new book, I pre-ordered it on Amazon and couldn't wait to get my hands on it. Now that I started reading it, I can't put it down!

Interesting pop culture style history but I was hoping it would be more in depth. There were also many, many mispellings and editing mistakes.

fun to read, good book.

This book is a great readable and powerful testament to human behavior and the economy. As a financial advisor it gave me great insight into the cycles of the markets.