“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 ...

The South Sea bubble is a complex, ... The South Sea Bubble of 1720—Repackaging Debt and the Current Reach for Yield”, found four factors. (1) Start with insider trading, ...

April 5 (Bloomberg) -- The bubble of 1720 precipitatedEngland’s first stock-market crash. In August of that year,shares in the South Sea Company reached a peak of 1,000 poundsand dropped to 150 ...

John Carswell, ‘The South Sea Bubble’ (Cresset, second edition, 1961) Peter Dickson, ‘The Financial Revolution in England: A Study in the Development of Public Credit, 1688-1756’ (Gregg ...

The South Sea Bubble of 1720 arose out of an innovation in finance. Is blockchain heading down the same path, asks John Stepek.

Helen Paul, University of Southampton. Coronavirus has caused a great deal of stock market turbulence and, somewhat inevitably, comparisons have been made to the volatility caused by the South Sea ...

As the year 1720 progressed, investors figured out that the South Sea Company was just hype and nothing more. As Chancellor writes: “By the end of September, the share price was below 200, a ...