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Fortune Tellers

Name: Fortune Tellers
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 01018382
Price: 26.22 EUR
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Walter A. Friedman

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 01018382

Publishers Princeton University Press, April 2016

The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pionee... Full description

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The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929.