The Great mirror of folly
Subtitle: finance, culture, and the crash of 1720
By: edited by William N. Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, and Timothy G. Young ; with a foreword by Robert J.  Shiller
Series: Yale series in economic and financial history; Yale series in economic and financial history
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780300162462
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Financial crises; South Sea Company; Colonial companies; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I BOOK; title: 1. Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid and Its Readers, Then and Now / Frans De Bruyn; title: 2. Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: A Bibliographical Interpretation / Kuniko Forrer; title: 3. Elusive Paper: The Beinecke Library's "Proto-Tafereel" and Related Financial Ephemera / Timothy G. Young; title: pt. II FINANCE; title: 4. Finance in The Great Mirror of Folly / K. Geert Rouwenhorst; title: 5. Blowing Early Bubbles: Rational Exuberance in the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles / Hans-Joachim Voth; title: 6. Long Shadow of John Law on French Public Finance: The Mississippi Bubble / Eugene N. White; title: 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; title: 20 / Larry Neal; title: 8. Mirroring Different Follies: The Character of the 1720 Bubble in the Dutch Republic / Joost Jonker; title: pt. III TEXT, IMAGE, CULTURE; title: 9. Staging Folly in the Dutch Republic, England, and France / Catherine Labio; title: 10. Satire in Text and Image: Bubble Publications in England and the Netherlands Compared / Frans De Bruyn; title: 11. Verse Weavers and Paper Traders: Financial Speculation in Dutch Theater / Inger Leemans; title: 12. Print Power: Mad Crowds and the Art of Memory in Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid / Julie Berger Hochstrasser; title: 13. Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: Remarks on the Style and Artistic Quality of the Prints / Thea Vignau-Wilberg; title: 14. French Context of Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: John Law, Rococo Culture, and the Riches of the New World / Darius A. Spieth; title: 15. Playing Games with the Financial Crisis of 1720: The April Card in Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid / Jeroen Salman; title: 16. Folly of the World: Moralism, Globalism, and the Business of Geography in the Early Enlightenment / Benjamin Schmidt.