William Quinn is an economic and financial historian and Lecturer in Finance at Queen’s Management School, Belfast. His research focuses on market manipulation, corners, and financial bubbles, particularly in historical stock markets. He is the author of Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, co-authored with John Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. Boom and Bust has been critically acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal, The Critic, and the Irish Times, and was named an Economics Book of the Year for 2020 by the Financial Times.
