Boom, Bust, and Beyond : : New Perspectives on the 1720 Stock Market Bubble /

Boom, Bust, and Beyond : : New Perspectives on the 1720 Stock Market Bubble / / ed. by Daniel Menning, Stefano Condorelli.

Few financial crises, historically speaking, have attracted such attention as the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles of 1719–20. The twin bubbles had major economic and political implications, sending shock waves through the whole of Europe; they astonished contemporaries, and, to a large extent, the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Condorelli, Stefano,
Ericsson, Peter,
Froide, Amy M.,
Ghachem, Malick W.,
Grenier, Jean-Yves,
Kessler, Marlene,
Kleer, Richard A.,
Menning, Daniel,
Murphy, Anne L.,
Rosenhaft, Eve,
Swingen, Abigail,
Wahrman, Dror,
Winton, Patrik,
Zabel, Christine,
HerausgeberIn:
Condorelli, Stefano,
Menning, Daniel,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 355 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Boom, Bust and Beyond – An Introduction
  • I. Broadening the Geographical Frame
  • The Rise and Fall of a New Credit System. Transnational Financial Experiments and Domestic Power Struggles in Sweden, 1710–1720
  • Chartering Companies. A Dialogue about the Timeline and the Actors of the Pan-European 1720 Stock Euphoria
  • Linen and Lotteries: The Anatomy of an English Bubble Company in Germany
  • The Mississippi Bubble in Saint-Domingue (Haiti)
  • II. Engaging with Traditional Narratives
  • When First We Practice to Deceive: An Alternative Account of the South Sea Bubble
  • The Bubble and the Bail-Out: The South Sea Company, Jacobitism, and Public Credit in Early Hanoverian Britain
  • The Economic Effect of the South Sea Bubble on the Baltic Sea Trade
  • The Long Shadow of the South Sea Bubble: Memory, Financial Crisis, and the Charitable Corporation Scandal of 1732
  • III. Understanding Speculation – Micro to Macro
  • “L’on entend tant dire pour et contre, que le plus habile doit agir au pure hasard.” A Case Study on one Investor’s Decision-making in the Mississippi Bubble
  • Order from Chaos Springs: The Bubbles of 1720 as a Turning Point in Western Conceptualizations of Causality and Order
  • “We have been ruined by Whores”: Perceptions of Female Involvement in the South Sea Scheme
  • To Think the Unthinkable. Early Financial Theories (Late 17th–18th Century)
  • From Bubble to Speculation – Eighteenth-Century Readings of the 1720s
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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