Research Catalog

Title

The Great mirror of folly : finance, culture, and the crash of 1720 / edited by William N. Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, and Timothy G. Young ; with a foreword by Robert J. Shiller.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

Goetzmann, William N.

Description

xiv, 346 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm.

Series Statement

Yale series in economic and financial history

Uniform Title

Yale series in economic and financial history.

Subjects

• Financial crises
• Colonial companies
• History
• Groote tafereel der dwaasheid
• Colonial companies > Early works to 1800
• Early works
• South Sea Company Early works to 1800
• Financial crises > History > 18th century
• 1700 - 1799
• South Sea Company

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I BOOK -- 1. Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid and Its Readers, Then and Now / Frans De Bruyn -- 2. Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: A Bibliographical Interpretation / Kuniko Forrer -- 3. Elusive Paper: The Beinecke Library's "Proto-Tafereel" and Related Financial Ephemera / Timothy G. Young -- pt. II FINANCE -- 4. Finance in The Great Mirror of Folly / K. Geert Rouwenhorst -- 5. Blowing Early Bubbles: Rational Exuberance in the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles / Hans-Joachim Voth -- 6. Long Shadow of John Law on French Public Finance: The Mississippi Bubble / Eugene N. White -- 7. Reflections from the Mirror of Folly: The Adventures of Lord Londonderry, the Grieving Share Trader, in the Stock Markets of Paris, Amsterdam, and London in the Bubbles of 1719 -- 20 / Larry Neal -- 8. Mirroring Different Follies: The Character of the 1720 Bubble in the Dutch Republic / Joost Jonker -- pt. III TEXT, IMAGE, CULTURE -- 9. Staging Folly in the Dutch Republic, England, and France / Catherine Labio -- 10. Satire in Text and Image: Bubble Publications in England and the Netherlands Compared / Frans De Bruyn -- 11. Verse Weavers and Paper Traders: Financial Speculation in Dutch Theater / Inger Leemans -- 12. Print Power: Mad Crowds and the Art of Memory in Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid / Julie Berger Hochstrasser -- 13. Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: Remarks on the Style and Artistic Quality of the Prints / Thea Vignau-Wilberg -- 14. French Context of Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: John Law, Rococo Culture, and the Riches of the New World / Darius A. Spieth -- 15. Playing Games with the Financial Crisis of 1720: The April Card in Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid / Jeroen Salman -- 16. Folly of the World: Moralism, Globalism, and the Business of Geography in the Early Enlightenment / Benjamin Schmidt.

Call Number

JFG 15-46

ISBN

• 9780300162462 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0300162464 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013016691

OCLC

830089535

Title

The Great mirror of folly : finance, culture, and the crash of 1720 / edited by William N. Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, and Timothy G. Young ; with a foreword by Robert J. Shiller.

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Yale series in economic and financial history

Yale series in economic and financial history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1700 - 1799

Added Author

Goetzmann, William N.

Research Call Number

JFG 15-46