A nation of deadbeats: an uncommon history of America's financial disasters

Preface: A republic of deadbeats: a few technical terms

Duer's disgrace

A botanizing excursion

Monkey jackets, the uncorked Mississippi, and the birth of caterpillar banks

The second bank, the monkey jacket war, and Tenskwatawa's revenge

The politics of panic, the economics of rags

Leviathan

Of swamps and calculus

Ceres Americana

A storm of wheat

Crosses of gold

Who put the roar in the Roaring Twenties?

Conclusions, conclusions

Postscript: Here be dragons: what's wrong with how historians and economists have written about financial panics..