Economic historian who wrote more than 30 books, among them Manias, Panics, and Crashes (1978), and helped develop hegemonic stability theory. Died in 2003.
Manias, Panics and Crashes turns Hyman Minsky's financial instability hypothesis into a repeatable sequence - displacement, credit expansion, euphoria, distress, revulsion - and tests it against four centuries of episodes, which is why later crisis writing keeps returning to it. The World in Depression advances the argument that the 1930s slump deepened because no state would act as lender of last resort.
3 books of their own
Financial crises follow a repeated sequence of boom, mania, panic and crash.
Recommended by: Howard Marks, Li Lu
The Depression ran deep because no country would act as the world's stabiliser.
European finance from the Middle Ages on: money, banking, markets and public debt.
Manias, Panics and Crashes | Financial crises follow a repeated sequence of boom, mania, panic and crash. | 1996 | T1 | Howard Marks, Li Lu |
The World in Depression, 1929-1939 | The Depression ran deep because no country would act as the world's stabiliser. | 1973 | T1 | – |
A Financial History of Western Europe | European finance from the Middle Ages on: money, banking, markets and public debt. | 1984 | T1 | – |
| The Economist Who Foresaw Our Global Economic Order Paywall | The New York Times | 2022 |
| Charles P. Kindleberger, 92, Global Economist, Is Dead Paywall | The New York Times | 2003 |
| Obituary: Charles Kindleberger | The Guardian | 2003 |