The Bubble Act New Perspectives from Passage to Repeal and Beyond /
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| Summary: | XXIII, 300 p. 13 illus., 4 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31894-8 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy
- ‘Mr Morice is said to appear at the head’: The Bubble Act and an Aborted Joint-Stock Slave-Trading Company
- ‘That ever-memorable year of epidemical infatuation’: Incorporation, the Jamaica Mines Company, and the Bubble Act of 1720
- Pamphlet Poetry and the South Sea Bubble
- Decoding the Bubble: Popular Magic, Financial Deception, and Eliza Haywood’s Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to Utopia
- Consequences Unintended: The Bubble Act and American Independence
- Capitalism by Generalists: The Governance of the Ayr Bank and the Emergence of Professionalism in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Scottish Banking
- Royal Charters, Royal Power, and the Business of Empire
- Babbage’s Age of Speculation: Calculating the Value of Life After the Repeal of the Bubble Act
- The Repeal of the Bubble Act and the Debate Between the Currency School and the Banking School
- Agency Houses in Bengal and the Indigo Bubble
- Epilogue.