Speculative manias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including tulip mania, the South Sea bubble and the Mississippi bubble. An event belongs here when its cited article dates it to the seventeenth or eighteenth century. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Early Modern Speculative Manias, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field. Each entry in the group links to its own article with its sources and related entries.
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Wikipedia: Tulip mania
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Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels.
South Sea Company (Wikipedia)
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The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in January 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt.
John Law's Company (Wikipedia)
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John Law's Company, founded in 1717 by Scottish economist and financier John Law, was a joint-stock company that occupies a unique place in French and European monetary history, as it was for a brief moment granted the entire revenue-raising capacity of the French state.
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