Chapter 4. Positive Feedbacks

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the Princeton Science Library Edition xiii
4. Preface to the 2002 Edition xix
5. Chapter 1. Financial Crashes: What, How, Why, and When? 1
6. Chapter 2. Fundamentals of Financial Markets 26
7. Chapter 3. Financial Crashes Are “Outliers” 49
8. Chapter 4. Positive Feedbacks 81
9. Chapter 5. Modeling Financial Bubbles and Market Crashes 134
10. Chapter 6. Hierarchies, Complex Fractal Dimensions, and Log-Periodicity 171
11. Chapter 7. Autopsy of Major Crashes: Universal Exponents and Log-Periodicity 228
12. Chapter 8. Bubbles, Crises, and Crashes in Emergent Markets 281
13. Chapter 9. Prediction of Bubbles, Crashes, and Antibubbles 320
14. Chapter 10. 2050: The End of the Growth Era? 355
15. References 397
16. Index 419