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The Mississippi Bubble in Saint-Domingue (Haiti)

From the book Boom, Bust, and Beyond

  • Malick W. Ghachem
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110592139-006
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston
From the book
Boom, Bust, and Beyond
Boom, Bust, and Beyond

Chapters in this book (19)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Boom, Bust and Beyond – An Introduction
I. Broadening the Geographical Frame
The Rise and Fall of a New Credit System. Transnational Financial Experiments and Domestic Power Struggles in Sweden, 1710–1720
Chartering Companies. A Dialogue about the Timeline and the Actors of the Pan-European 1720 Stock Euphoria
Linen and Lotteries: The Anatomy of an English Bubble Company in Germany
The Mississippi Bubble in Saint-Domingue (Haiti)
II. Engaging with Traditional Narratives
When First We Practice to Deceive: An Alternative Account of the South Sea Bubble
The Bubble and the Bail-Out: The South Sea Company, Jacobitism, and Public Credit in Early Hanoverian Britain
The Economic Effect of the South Sea Bubble on the Baltic Sea Trade
The Long Shadow of the South Sea Bubble: Memory, Financial Crisis, and the Charitable Corporation Scandal of 1732
III. Understanding Speculation – Micro to Macro
“L’on entend tant dire pour et contre, que le plus habile doit agir au pure hasard.” A Case Study on one Investor’s Decision-making in the Mississippi Bubble
Order from Chaos Springs: The Bubbles of 1720 as a Turning Point in Western Conceptualizations of Causality and Order
“We have been ruined by Whores”: Perceptions of Female Involvement in the South Sea Scheme
To Think the Unthinkable. Early Financial Theories (Late 17th–18th Century)
From Bubble to Speculation – Eighteenth-Century Readings of the 1720s
Selected Bibliography
Index
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