The Bubble Act

Author : Helen Paul,Nicholas Di Liberto,D`Maris Coffman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031318948

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The Bubble Act by Helen Paul,Nicholas Di Liberto,D`Maris Coffman Pdf

This book reassesses the actual effects of the Bubble Act, still popularly associated with the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The book builds on the foundational work of Ron Harris to discuss the act’s effect on corporate governance, literary culture, colonial law, and the Industrial Revolution. The Bubble Act was deemed an empty letter within England itself as it was rarely used in legal proceedings. Several chapters consider whether this was the case outside England, from Scotland to the Americas, India, and Africa. Others assess the impact of the act, both on literary culture and in the history of economic thought. The act has been conceptualized as a brake on economic development or of little consequence. This edited collection offers a timely reassessment of the Bubble Act and its legacy.

Author : William Quinn,John D. Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108421256

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Boom and Bust by William Quinn,John D. Turner Pdf

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? Boom and Bust reveals why bubbles happen, and why some bubbles have catastrophic economic, social and political consequences, whilst others have actually benefited society.

Author : Ron Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521662753

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Industrializing English Law by Ron Harris Pdf

This 2000 book addresses the discrepancy between the developing economy of England and the stagnant legal framework of business organization between 1720 and 1844.

Author : John Carswell
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Finance
ISBN : 0750927992

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The South Sea Bubble by John Carswell Pdf

This classic account of the first great British financial scandal is a brilliant recreation of eighteenth-century social and economic life and will interest anyone fascinated by scandal, corruption, and human vanity.

Author : Peter M. Garber
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262571536

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Famous First Bubbles by Peter M. Garber Pdf

The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests that an event is inexplicably crowd-driven, what it really means, claims Peter Garber, is that we have grasped a near-empty explanation rather than expend the effort to understand the event. In this book Garber offers market-fundamental explanations for the three most famous bubbles: the Dutch Tulipmania (1634-1637), the Mississippi Bubble (1719-1720), and the closely connected South Sea Bubble (1720). He focuses most closely on the Tulipmania because it is the event that most modern observers view as clearly crazy. Comparing the pattern of price declines for initially rare eighteenth-century bulbs to that of seventeenth-century bulbs, he concludes that the extremely high prices for rare bulbs and their rapid decline reflects normal pricing behavior. In the cases of the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles, he describes the asset markets and financial manipulations involved in these episodes and casts them as market fundamentals.

Author : David F. DeRosa
Publisher : CFA Institute Research Foundation
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781952927119

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Bursting the Bubble: Rationality in a Seemingly Irrational Market by David F. DeRosa Pdf

The presence of speculative bubbles in capital markets (an important area of interest in financial history) is widely accepted across many circles. Talk of them is pervasive in the media and especially in the popular financial press. Bubbles are thought to be found primarily in the stock market, which is our main interest, although bubbles are said to occur in other markets. Bubbles go hand in hand with the notion that markets can be irrational. The academic community has a great interest in bubbles, and it has produced scholarly literature that is voluminous. For some economists, doing bubble research is like joining the vanguard of a Kuhnian paradigm shift in economic thinking. Not so fast. If bubbles did exist, they would pose a serious challenge to neoclassical finance. Bubbles would contradict the ideas that markets are rational or work in an informationally efficient manner. That’s what makes the topic of bubbles interesting. This book reviews and evaluates the academic literature as well as some popular investment books on the possible existence of speculative bubbles in the stock market. The main question is whether there is convincing empirical evidence that bubbles exist. A second question is whether the theoretical concepts that have been advanced for bubbles make them plausible. The reader will discover that I am skeptical that bubbles actually exist. But I do not think I or anyone else will ever be able to conclusively prove that there has never been a bubble. From studying the literature and from reading history, I find that many famous purported bubbles reflect inaccurate history or mistakes in analysis or simply cannot be shown to have existed. In other instances, bubbles might have existed. But in each of those cases, there are credible rational explanations. And good evidence exists for the idea that even if bubbles do exist, they are not of great importance to understanding the stock market.

Author : Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Economics
ISBN : IND:32000009726938

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Dictionary of Political Economy by Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave Pdf

Author : John Carswell
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business failures
ISBN : UCSC:32106010209630

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The South Sea Bubble by John Carswell Pdf

An authoritative account of this extraordinary 18th-century financial, political, and royal scandal, this book describes the drama of the promotion, the insane fever of speculation, and the international impact of the final collapse.

Author : Patrick Walsh
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843839309

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The South Sea Bubble and Ireland by Patrick Walsh Pdf

In late September 1720 the South Sea bubble burst. The collapse of the South Sea Company's share price caused the first great British stock market crash, the repercussions of which were felt far beyond the City of London. Patrick Walsh's book traces for the first time the impact of the rise and fall of the South Sea bubble on the peripheries of the British state. Its primary focus is on Ireland, but Irish developments are placed within a comparative context, with special attention paid to Scotland. Drawing on an impressive array of evidence, including bank ledgers, private correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers, and contemporary literary sources, this book examines not only investment in London but also the impact of the bubble on the fate of non-metropolitan projects in the 'South Sea Year', notably the failed project for an Irish national bank. Central to the book is the lived experience of the bubble and the wider financial revolution. The stories of individual investors - their strategies, speculations, aspirations, gains, losses and misunderstandings - are employed to create a new, more personal narrative of the momentous events of 1720, showing how they impacted on the lives of the inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Patrick Walsh is Irish Research Council CARA Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. He is the author of The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: The Life of William Conolly, 1662-1729 (Boydell Press, 2010).

Author : Helen Paul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136903106

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The South Sea Bubble by Helen Paul Pdf

The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble. It combines economic theory and quantitative analysis with historical evidence in order to provide a rounded account. It brings together scholarship from a variety of different fields to update the existing historical work on the Bubble. Up until now, economic history research has not been integrated into mainstream histories of 1720. Technical work on share prices and ledgers has been inaccessible to a wider audience. As well as providing new evidence against the gambling mania argument, the book also interprets the existing economic history scholarship for non-specialists.

Author : Christopher Knowlton
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982128388

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Bubble in the Sun by Christopher Knowlton Pdf

Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. The decade there produced the largest human migration in American history, far exceeding the settlement of the West, as millions flocked to the grand hotels and the new cities that rose rapidly from the teeming wetlands. The boom spawned a new subdivision civilization—and the most egregious large-scale assault on the environment in the name of “progress.” Nowhere was the glitz and froth of the Roaring Twenties more excessive than in Florida. Here was Vegas before there was a Vegas: gambling was condoned and so was drinking, since prohibition was not enforced. Tycoons, crooks, and celebrities arrived en masse to promote or exploit this new and dazzling American frontier in the sunshine. Yet, the import and deep impact of these historical events have never been explored thoroughly until now. In Bubble in the Sun Christopher Knowlton examines the grand artistic and entrepreneurial visions behind Coral Gables, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, and other storied sites, as well as the darker side of the frenzy. For while giant fortunes were being made and lost and the nightlife raged more raucously than anywhere else, the pure beauty of the Everglades suffered wanton ruination and the workers, mostly black, who built and maintained the boom, endured grievous abuses. Knowlton breathes dynamic life into the forces that made and wrecked Florida during the decade: the real estate moguls Carl Fisher, George Merrick, and Addison Mizner, and the once-in-a-century hurricane whose aftermath triggered the stock market crash. This essential account is a revelatory—and riveting—history of an era that still affects our country today.

Author : Sheri L. Turrell,Mary Bell
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781626253599

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ACT for Adolescents by Sheri L. Turrell,Mary Bell Pdf

In this much-needed guide, a clinical psychologist and a social worker provide a flexible, ten-week protocol based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help adolescents overcome mental health hurdles and thrive. If you’re a clinician working with adolescents, you understand the challenges this population faces. But sometimes it can be difficult to establish connection in therapy. To help, ACT for Adolescents offers the first effective professional protocol for facilitating ACT with adolescents in individual therapy, along with modifications for a group setting. In this book, you’ll find invaluable strategies for connecting meaningfully with your client in session, while at the same time arriving quickly and safely to the clinical issues your client is facing. You’ll also find an overview of the core processes of ACT so you can introduce mindfulness into each session and help your client choose values-based action. Using the protocol outlined in this book, you’ll be able to help your client overcome a number of mental health challenges from depression and anxiety to eating disorders and trauma. If you work with adolescent clients, the powerful and effective step-by-step exercises in this book are tailored especially for you. This is a must-have addition to your professional library. This book includes audio downloads.

Author : John Houston Merrill,Charles Frederic Williams,Thomas Johnson Michie,David Shephard Garland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:HL5HKP

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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill,Charles Frederic Williams,Thomas Johnson Michie,David Shephard Garland Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Lindley Baron Lindley,Samuel Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Corporation law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044786718

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A Treatise on the Law of Partnership by Nathaniel Lindley Baron Lindley,Samuel Dickinson Pdf

Author : William Henry Pope Clement
Publisher : Toronto: Carswell
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:$B22216

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The Law of the Canadian Constitution by William Henry Pope Clement Pdf