Blowing bubbles
Subtitle: the emergence of stock trading
By: written and presented by Niall Ferguson ; producer Joanna Potts ; Chimerica Media in association with Educational Broadcasting Corporation for Channel 4.
Contributors: Danon, Orly; Aukema, Dewald; Severin, Steven; Chimerica Media; Educational Broadcasting Corporation; Channel Four (Great Britain); Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Series: Ascent of money: a financial history of the world; ECO 447 (NU course); FIN 310 (NU course); FIN 442 (NU course); FIN 501 (NU course); FIN 600 (NU course); FIN 631 (NU course); MGT 430 (NU course); MGT 630 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hamilton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 49
Subjects: History; Stock Market Crash, 1929; Stocks; Stock companies; Financial crises; Business failures; International finance; Enron Corp; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie
Other titles: Emergence of stock trading
Description: "In this program, financial scholar Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the joint stock company and the modern share trading system, highlighting some of history's most notorious market meltdowns. Analyzing the herd instinct and its role in economic upswings and downturns, Ferguson draws parallels between the 2001 Enron bankruptcy and the 18th-century Mississippi Bubble perpetrated by Scottish financier John Law, who exercised a nearly monolithic influence over France's economy and colonial ventures. Ferguson also traces aspects of today's stock exchanges to Dirck Bas Jacobsz and the Dutch East India Company."--Container.
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Editor, Orly Danon ; director of photography, Dewald Aukema ; composer, Steven Severin.

Presenter: Niall Ferguson.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.