Provides wide-ranging and thorough examples and explanations of how and why bubbles and crashes have historically developed and are tied to money, credit, trust, psychology, risk preferences, behavioral and structural aspects, and social mood

Covers the role of central banks and the relationship to commercial lending

Presents a new descriptive theory and practical empirical approach to the measurement, analysis, and prediction of extreme financial market conditions

Serves as a handy scholarly reference for further studies via extensive surveys of previous academic research and history and updates through the 2020 virus-related crash and remarkable rebound​