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The South Sea Bubble: An Economic History of its Origins and Consequences. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
The South Sea Bubble An Economic History of its Origins and Consequences - Routledge Explorations in Economic History Author:Helen Paul 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... more » 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.« less