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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction 14 1. Coffee Houses, The Press and Misinformation 20 2. Exchange Alley and the Evolution of London¬タルs Securities Market 35 3. Origins of the South Sea Company 53 4. John Law and the Mississippi Bubble 69 5. The South Sea Scheme 86 6. The Bubble 109 7. The Crash 138 8. Crisis Resolution 153 9. Lessons from the South Sea Bubble 168 10. Conclusion 191 Glossary 198 Bibliography 200 Index 208 Publisher:Princeton University Press,Published:2014,ISBN:9781400851645,Related ISBN:9780691119717,Language:English,OCLC:878078547 For nearly three centuries the spectacular rise and fall of the South Sea Company has gripped the public imagination as the most graphic warning to investors of the dangers of unbridled speculation. Yet history repeats itself and the same elemental forces that drove up the price of South Sea shares to dizzying heights in 1720 have in recent years produced the global crash of 1987, the Japanese stock market bubble of the 1980s/90s, and the international dot.com boom of the 1990s. The First Crash throws light on the current debate about investor rationality by re-examining the story o

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Author
Richard Dale
Publisher
Dale, Richard, Princeton University Press
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9781306548045
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Finance, History, Economics
Rating
3.6 / 5 (10 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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