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I am not master of events : the speculation of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea bubbles
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I am not master of events : the speculation of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea bubbles / Larry Neal.
ISBN
9780300153163 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
Physical Description
xiv, 214 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 30, 2011
Series
Yale series in economic and financial history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Storms in the Caribbean Sea and the life of Lord Londonderry
The War of the Spanish succession and the Jacobite Rebellion
The diamond deal
Learning by doing : law and Londonderry before the bet
The bet of the bubbles
The blowing and bursting of bubbles
The workout
Family problems
Did the speculations of law and Londonderry matter?
Epilogue.
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