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Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
Templeton Foundation Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Mississippi Scheme
- John Law; his birth and youthful career
- Duel between Law and Wilson
- Law's escape from the King's Bench
- The "Land-bank"
- Law's gambling propensities on the continent, and acquaintance with the Duke of Orleans
- State of France after the reign of Louis XIV
- Paper money instituted in that country by Law
- Enthusiasm of the French People at the Mississippi Scheme
- Marshal Villars
- Strategems employed and bribes given for an interview with Law
- Great fluctuations in Mississippi stock
- Dreadful murders
- Law created comptroller-general of finances
- Great sale for all kinds of ornaments in Paris
- Financial difficulties commence
- Men sent out to work the mines on the Mississippi, as a blind
- Payment stopped at the bank
- Law dismissed from the ministry
- Payments made in specie
- Law and the Regent satirised in song
- Dreadful crisis of the Mississippi Scheme
- Law, almost a ruined man, flies to Venice
- Death of the Regent
- Law obliged to resort again to gambling
- His death at Venice
- The South-sea Bubble
- Originated by Harley Earl of Oxford
- Exchange Alley a scene of great excitement
- Mr. Walpole
- Sir John Blunt
- Great demand for shares
- Innumerable "Bubbles"
- List of nefarious projects and bubbles
- Great rise in South-Sea stock
- Sudden fall
- General meeting of the directors
- Fearful climax of the South-Sea expedition
- Its effects on society
- Uproar in the House of Commons
- Escape of Knight
- Apprehension of Sir John Blunt.