“South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of the First International Crash” was organized by Baker Library Special Collections. Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Baker Library has opened a new exhibition that ...

As Tseng, Diehl and Akalin write: “The South Sea bubble presents the most explicit historical parallel to the cryptocurrency bubble.” Bitcoin and the copycats Bitcoin was the first crypto.

A notable collection was the one sold recently in London, made up of pamphlets, prints, engraved portraits, caricatures, and documents all pertaining to the famous South Sea Bubble and other schemes.

The South Sea Bubble has been a symbol of financial crisis for 300 years. But like other more modern crises, its public image diverges from the reality. The same probably can’t be said for the ...

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The South Sea Bubble of 1720 cost Sir Isaac Newton millions of pounds in today’s money. But how exactly can we define a market bubble? Subscribe to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.