Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF TABLES xiii
4. LIST OF FIGURES xvii
5. LIST OF BOXES xxiii
6. PREFACE xxv
7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxxvii
8. PREAMBLE: SOME INITIAL INTUITIONS ON FINANCIAL FRAGILITY AND THE FICKLE NATURE OF CONFIDENCE xxxix
9. PART I. Financial Crises: An Operational Primer 1
10. PART II. Sovereign External Debt Crises 49
11. PART III. The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt and Default 101
12. PART IV. Banking Crises, Inflation, and Currency Crashes 139
13. PART V. The U.S. Subprime Meltdown and the Second Great Contraction 199
14. PART VI. What Have We Learned? 275
15. DATA APPENDIXES 293
16. NOTES 393
17. REFERENCES 409
18. NAME INDEX 435
19. SUBJECT INDEX 443