{"product_id":"market-mayhem-a-four-hundred-year-history-of-bubbles-manias-and-the-traders-who-survived-them-9798196480478","title":"Market Mayhem: A Four-Hundred-Year History of Bubbles, Manias, and the Traders Who Survived Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Louw Van Riet\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Economic History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery generation thinks it has discovered a new way to get rich. Every generation is wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the tulip-fevered taverns of seventeenth-century Haarlem to the FTX collapse in twenty twenty-two, the same drama has played out in twenty-two acts across four hundred years. The faces change. The instruments change. The technology changes. \u003cb\u003eThe pattern does not.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarket Mayhem\u003c\/i\u003e is a panoramic history of the worst financial disasters in modern memory - told as story, not as textbook. Inside, you'll meet: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dutch weavers who mortgaged their homes for a single flower bulb\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe convicted murderer who talked the King of France into handing him an entire economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSir Isaac Newton, the smartest man alive, who lost his fortune chasing the South Sea bubble\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe brothers who tried to corner the world's silver - and almost broke the United States banking system\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Nobel Prize winners whose mathematical certainty bankrupted Long-Term Capital Management\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Argentinians who watched their savings evaporate behind the locked gates of \u003ci\u003eel corralito\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe high-frequency-trading algorithm that vaporised a trillion dollars of market value in nine minutes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe crypto founder in cargo shorts who lost eight billion dollars of customer money\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter follows a recurring pattern - \u003cb\u003esetup, boom, euphoria, the crack, wreckage, survivors\u003c\/b\u003e - and closes with the lessons every trader must learn or relearn. You will see, with alarming clarity, that the worst trades you have ever made are the same trades human beings have been making since 1637.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn together under the \u003cb\u003eMind - Method - Money\u003c\/b\u003e framework that has helped thousands of traders find their edge, \u003ci\u003eMarket Mayhem\u003c\/i\u003e is the book the markets keep writing whether anyone reads it or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you have ever bought at the top, you are in better company than you know.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLouw van Riet is the founder of Complete Trader's Edge and the author of \u003c\/i\u003eThe Complete Trader's Edge\u003ci\u003e. He writes about market history, behavioural psychology, and the long arithmetic of risk.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892783792279,"sku":"9798196480478","price":1853.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196480478.webp?v=1781188932","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/market-mayhem-a-four-hundred-year-history-of-bubbles-manias-and-the-traders-who-survived-them-9798196480478","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}