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Making.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 1, no. 1: 7–59. Schachter, Stanley, William Gerin, Donald C. Hood, and Paul Anderassen. 1985a. “I. Was the South Sea Bubble a Random Walk?” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 6, no. 4: 323–9. Schachter, Stanley, Donald C. Hood, William Gerin, Paul Andreassen, and Michael
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, originally published in 1841, and easily available from reprinted editions. The first chapters detail the Mississippi Scheme, South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania of centuries ago. Change a few of the names and you’re reading about Internet stocks. Also, I suggest almost anything by James
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took a bath in a speculative mania. He even sold for a nice gain but jumped back in near the peak. It was called the South Sea Bubble, and at one point it was worth about five times all the money in Europe. And you thought Pets.com was loony! “I can calculate
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what was happening seemed to belong to a classic hysteria equal to that of the great historical bubbles such as the Dutch tulip mania, the South Sea bubble, or the nineteenth-century bubble in railway stocks. The broad rules of these bubbles and implosions are well known. They were first systematized by the
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look for context to explain recent events, turning for parallels to previous examples of markets overshooting such as the seventeenth-century Dutch tulip mania, the South Sea Bubble in the eighteenth century and the Roaring Twenties. Defenders of the free market have been quick to use these explanations to deflect criticism from the
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laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, ‘I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.’ If he had not been traumatized by this loss
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like an NBA star, it has the potential to be just as rewarding. List of some notable manias, panics and crashes Tulip mania (Netherlands) – 1637 South Sea Bubble (UK) – 1720 Bengal Bubble (UK) – 1769 Credit Crisis of 1772 (UK) Financial Crisis of 1791 (US) Panic of 1796–7 (US) Panic of 1819 (US
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spiritual mediums but could never be persuaded to give up his spiritualist beliefs. And Isaac Newton, a scientist without equal, lost his fortune in the South Sea Bubble through a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of markets and human behavior. Smarts, it would seem, are no guarantee of being a rational actor. Yes
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free. Nor, of course, are bank portfolios always sound. The history of banking is filled with episodes of mania, going back at least to the South Sea Bubble in the 1720s, when bankers lost their heads and made foolish loans. In such instances, when a raft of bad loans couldn’t be paid
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