The South Sea Bubble

Download or read book The South Sea Bubble written by Helen Paul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.