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The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law. Newton Page Classics. ISBN 978-1934619056. An account of the euphoria and wealth John Law created by engineering the first stock market boom, and the despair, poverty and destroyed lives that followed its crash. Velde, Francois R. (2003). Government Equity and Money: John Law's System in 1720 France.
View of the camp of John Law at Biloxi, December 1720. The Mississippi Company (French: Compagnie du Mississippi; founded 1684, named the Company of the West from 1717, and the Company of the Indies from 1719 [1]) was a corporation holding a business monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies.
The Mississippi Bubble is a 1902 novel by American author Emerson Hough. It was Hough's first bestseller, and the fourth-best selling novel in the United States in 1902. [2] The historical novel revolves around the story of John Law (1671-1729) and the "Mississippi Bubble", an economic bubble of speculative investment in the French colony of ...
John Law: The Projector is an 1864 historical novel by the British writer William Harrison Ainsworth. [1] It was released in three volumes by the London publishing house Chapman and Hall . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It focuses on the early eighteenth century Scottish financier John Law and his efforts to establish the Mississippi Company in Paris which ...
A bubble (1633–37) in the Dutch Republic during which contracts for bulbs of tulips reached extraordinarily high prices, and suddenly collapsed. [1] The Mississippi Bubble: 1720 Kingdom of France: Banque Royale by John Law stopped payments of its note in exchange for specie and as result caused economic collapse in France. South Sea Bubble of ...
He draws telling parallels between the Great Recession and the 18th century Mississippi Bubble of Scottish financier John Law and the 2001 Enron bankruptcy. He shows why humans have a herd instinct when it comes to investment, and why no one can accurately predict when the bulls might stampede.
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Accounts of the South Sea Bubble, John Law and the Mississippi Company can be found in Charles Mackay's classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1843) – available from Project Gutenberg. Warning: this reference has been widely criticized by historians.