Boom, Bust, and Beyond
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"It is something which anyone working on the Bubble Year should read and, for the most part, will enjoy." Helen Paul in: GHIL Bulletin, XLII/2 (2020), 63-67 .
"Although there is still plenty we need to learn about the Financial Revolution, the 1720 bubbles, and their respective global contexts, Boom, Bust, and Beyond goes a long way towards enriching our understanding of early modern global financial capitalism." Carl Wennerlind in: H-Soz-Kult, 07.09.2021, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-29757 (07.09.2021).
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- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Boom, Bust and Beyond - An Introduction
- I. Broadening the Geographical Frame
- The Rise and Fall of a New Credit System. Transnational Financial Experiments and Domestic Power Struggles in Sweden, 1710-1720
- Chartering Companies. A Dialogue about the Timeline and the Actors of the Pan-European 1720 Stock Euphoria
- Linen and Lotteries: The Anatomy of an English Bubble Company in Germany
- The Mississippi Bubble in Saint-Domingue (Haiti)
- II. Engaging with Traditional Narratives
- When First We Practice to Deceive: An Alternative Account of the South Sea Bubble
- The Bubble and the Bail-Out: The South Sea Company, Jacobitism, and Public Credit in Early Hanoverian Britain
- The Economic Effect of the South Sea Bubble on the Baltic Sea Trade
- The Long Shadow of the South Sea Bubble: Memory, Financial Crisis, and the Charitable Corporation Scandal of 1732
- III. Understanding Speculation - Micro to Macro
- "L'on entend tant dire pour et contre, que le plus habile doit agir au pure hasard." A Case Study on one Investor's Decision-making in the Mississippi Bubble
- Order from Chaos Springs: The Bubbles of 1720 as a Turning Point in Western Conceptualizations of Causality and Order
- "We have been ruined by Whores": Perceptions of Female Involvement in the South Sea Scheme
- To Think the Unthinkable. Early Financial Theories (Late 17th-18th Century)
- From Bubble to Speculation - Eighteenth-Century Readings of the 1720s
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
