We're in the aftermath of an extraordinary bubble in cryptocurrencies and the ... shares shocking similarities with the story of the South Sea Company, a British endeavor that was at the center ...

Harvard Business School Baker Library. "The South Sea Bubble Timeline." Harvard Business School Baker Library. "The South Sea Bubble, 1720: The Bubble." Harvard University. "The Structural Causes ...

“The South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of the First International Crash” was organized by Baker Library Special Collections A formative moment in financial history, the bubble was the result of ...

In fact, Defoe was perhaps the world’s first investigative financial journalist and is said to have reported extensively on the South Sea bubble of 1720. Structurally, there is a lot in common ...

Like many economic bubbles—from Bitcoin to the South Sea bubble—Holland’s infamous “Tulip Mania” was doomed to burst. But the whole story of its fever pitch and reportedly ruinous fall ...

September 5), with its subheading “Rush prompts critics to warn that tokens are a ‘novelty’ bet with little use beyond trading”, I was reminded of what was said about the south sea ...