{"product_id":"the-first-crash-lessons-from-the-south-sea-bubble-9780691170947","title":"The First Crash  Lessons from the South Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard Dale ... picks a scholarly but readable path through the events that led to the collapse of shares in the infamous South Sea Company in 1720. Only the purblind could fail to draw some important parallels between the events of that year and the bubbles of the more recent past, not least the dot.com mania of five years ago.\"--Jonathan Davis, The Independent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction 1  Chapter One: Coffee Houses, The Press and Misinformation 7  Chapter Two: Exchange Alley and the Evolution of London's Securities Market 22  Chapter Three: Origins of the South Sea Company 40  Chapter Four: John Law and the Mississippi Bubble 56  Chapter Five: The South Sea Scheme 73  Chapter Six: The Bubble 96  Chapter Seven: The Crash 125  Chapter Eight: Crisis Resolution 140  Chapter Nine: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble 155  Appendix I: Hutcheson's South Sea Parable 171  Appendix II: Technical Note on Stock and Subscription Price Data 172  Chapter Ten: Conclusion 178  Glossary 185  Bibliography 187  Index 195","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403828339031,"sku":"9780691170947","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-first-crash-lessons-from-the-south-sea-bubble-9780691170947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}