Owen Sims, a PhD student at Queen's University Management School, recently gave a TEDx talk in Belfast on the future of banking. You can view Owen's slides and script here. Unfortunately he hasn't put up the video!! It was kind of Owen to give my book Banking in Crisis a plug during his talk and he seems to agree with the conclusions I reach in my book.
My colleague and former PhD student Gareth Campbell has created a website about the British Railway Mania - click here . This episode has been described by the Economist as probably the greatest bubble in human history. Gareth's website provides background on the Mania and posits some explanations for the 'bubble'. In his explanation of why the bubble happened, Gareth places a lot of emphasis on investor myopia regarding future dividends and uncalled capital. His study of investors during the episode does not support the view that this episode was fuelled by naive and irrational investors.