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The First Crash : Lessons from the South Sea Bubble /

"The First Church throws light on the current debate about investor rationality by re-examining the story of the South Sea Bubble from the standpoint of investors and commentators during and preceding the fateful bubble year. In absorbing prose, Richard Dale describes the trading techniques of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dale, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2004]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Coffee houses, the press and misinformation
  • Exchange Alley and the evolution of London's securities market
  • Origins of the South Sea Company
  • John Law and the Mississippi Bubble
  • The South Sea scheme
  • The bubble
  • The crash
  • Crisis resolution
  • Lessons from the South Sea Bubble. Appendix II. Hutcheson's South Sea parable ; Appendix II. Technical note on stock and subscription price data.