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Famous first bubbles : the fundamentals of early manias /

The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garber, Peter M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Bubble Interpretation
  • The Tulipmania Legend
  • A Political and Economic Background
  • The Traditional Image of Tulipmania
  • Where Does the Tulipmania Legend Come From?
  • Establishment Attitudes toward Futures Markets and Short Selling: The Source of the Pamphlets
  • The Bubonic Plague
  • The Broken Tulip
  • The Bulb Market, 1634-1637
  • Some Characterization of the Data
  • Post-Collapse Tulip Prices
  • Bulb Prices in Later Centuries
  • Was This Episode a "Tulipmania"?
  • The Macro Bubbles A Preliminary View: The Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
  • John Law and the Fundamentals of the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
  • John Law's Finance Operations
  • A Rehash of Mississippi Market Fundamentals
  • Law's Shadow: The South Sea Bubble
  • South Sea Finance Operations
  • Fundamentals of the South Sea Company
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. The Tulipmania in the Popular and Economics Literature
  • Appendix 2. The Seventeenth-Century Tulip Price Data
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index