Author: Helen Paul
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136903119
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book combines lessons and insights from financial theory with qualitative evidence, showing how the Georgians actually behaved and explaining why a bubble could occur without a gambling mania being to blame.
Money for Nothing
Author: Thomas Levenson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812998472
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The sweeping story of the world’s first financial crisis: “an astounding episode from the early days of financial markets that to this day continues to intrigue and perplex historians . . . narrative history at its best, lively and fresh with new insights” (Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lords of Finance) A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year ● Longlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award In the heart of the Scientific Revolution, when new theories promised to explain the affairs of the universe, Britain was broke, facing a mountain of debt accumulated in war after war it could not afford. But that same Scientific Revolution—the kind of thinking that helped Isaac Newton solve the mysteries of the cosmos—would soon lead clever, if not always scrupulous, men to try to figure a way out of Britain’s financial troubles. Enter the upstart leaders of the South Sea Company. In 1719, they laid out a grand plan to swap citizens’ shares of the nation’s debt for company stock, removing the burden from the state and making South Sea’s directors a fortune in the process. Everybody would win. The king’s ministers took the bait—and everybody did win. Far too much, far too fast. The following crash came suddenly in a rush of scandal, jail, suicide, and ruin. But thanks to Britain’s leader, Robert Walpole, the kingdom found its way through to emerge with the first truly modern, reliable, and stable financial exchange. Thomas Levenson’s Money for Nothing tells the unbelievable story of the South Sea Bubble with all the exuberance, folly, and the catastrophe of an event whose impact can still be felt today.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812998472
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The sweeping story of the world’s first financial crisis: “an astounding episode from the early days of financial markets that to this day continues to intrigue and perplex historians . . . narrative history at its best, lively and fresh with new insights” (Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lords of Finance) A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year ● Longlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award In the heart of the Scientific Revolution, when new theories promised to explain the affairs of the universe, Britain was broke, facing a mountain of debt accumulated in war after war it could not afford. But that same Scientific Revolution—the kind of thinking that helped Isaac Newton solve the mysteries of the cosmos—would soon lead clever, if not always scrupulous, men to try to figure a way out of Britain’s financial troubles. Enter the upstart leaders of the South Sea Company. In 1719, they laid out a grand plan to swap citizens’ shares of the nation’s debt for company stock, removing the burden from the state and making South Sea’s directors a fortune in the process. Everybody would win. The king’s ministers took the bait—and everybody did win. Far too much, far too fast. The following crash came suddenly in a rush of scandal, jail, suicide, and ruin. But thanks to Britain’s leader, Robert Walpole, the kingdom found its way through to emerge with the first truly modern, reliable, and stable financial exchange. Thomas Levenson’s Money for Nothing tells the unbelievable story of the South Sea Bubble with all the exuberance, folly, and the catastrophe of an event whose impact can still be felt today.
The South Sea Bubble
Author: John Carswell
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 9780750927994
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This classic account of the first great British financial scandal is a brilliant recreation of eighteenth-century social and economic life and will interest anyone fascinated by scandal, corruption, and human vanity.
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
ISBN: 9780750927994
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This classic account of the first great British financial scandal is a brilliant recreation of eighteenth-century social and economic life and will interest anyone fascinated by scandal, corruption, and human vanity.
The South Sea Bubble
Author: Helen Paul
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136903100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble. It combines economic theory and quantitative analysis with historical evidence in order to provide a rounded account. It brings together scholarship from a variety of different fields to update the existing historical work on the Bubble. Up until now, economic history research has not been integrated into mainstream histories of 1720. Technical work on share prices and ledgers has been inaccessible to a wider audience. As well as providing new evidence against the gambling mania argument, the book also interprets the existing economic history scholarship for non-specialists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136903100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble. It combines economic theory and quantitative analysis with historical evidence in order to provide a rounded account. It brings together scholarship from a variety of different fields to update the existing historical work on the Bubble. Up until now, economic history research has not been integrated into mainstream histories of 1720. Technical work on share prices and ledgers has been inaccessible to a wider audience. As well as providing new evidence against the gambling mania argument, the book also interprets the existing economic history scholarship for non-specialists.
The South Sea Bubble
Author: Helen Paul
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136903119
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book combines lessons and insights from financial theory with qualitative evidence, showing how the Georgians actually behaved and explaining why a bubble could occur without a gambling mania being to blame.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136903119
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book combines lessons and insights from financial theory with qualitative evidence, showing how the Georgians actually behaved and explaining why a bubble could occur without a gambling mania being to blame.
The South Sea Bubble, and the Numerous Fraudulent Projects to which it Gave Rise in 1720 ... Second Edition, with Additions
Author: South Sea Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Pages : 190
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The South-Sea Bubble
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Pages : 302
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The South Sea Bubble
Author: Lewis Saul Benjamin
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Category : South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The South sea bubble, and the numerous fraudulent projects to which it gave rise in 1720, historically detailed as a beacon to the unwary against modern schemes
Author: South sea bubble
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Pages : 192
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The South Sea Bubble, and the Numerous Fraudulent Projects to which it Gave Rise in 1720
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The South Sea Bubble, and the Numerous Fraudulent Projects to which it Gave Rise in 1720, Historically Detailed as a Beacon to the Unwary Against Modern Schemes ... Equally Visionary and Nefarious
Author: South Sea Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Pages : 162
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