The British Lions Crouched to a Nest of Owls
The South Sea Bubble through the Lens of the London Press
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3133927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl Wennerlind (Department of History, Barnard College ([email protected]), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 19-53 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182702-10874988 |
| OpenAlex | W4385948286 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
The South Sea Bubble is one of history's most iconic economic events. While much ink was spilled during the bubble year to make sense of events as they unfolded, commentators were left scrambling for ways to grasp what happened because no one had ever experienced a stock market bubble before. This article focuses on how the London press covered the events that later became known as the South Sea Bubble. A review of every newspaper article in which the company was mentioned during the year of 1720 captures how the movement of the price of the company's stock was interpreted, as well as how it was related to broader social, political, and geopolitical affairs
Archaeology · Bubble · Economic bubble · Economic history · Economics · Geopolitics · Mechanics · Media studies · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Stock (firearms · Finance · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
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City of Capital
Casualties of Credit
Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble
Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855
Human Cargoes
Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England
Jealousy of Credit
The Change of Government and the "Loss of the City", 1710-1711
| Highly cited | No |
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