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Charles Mackay
Economic Bubbles in History and Fiction

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Excerpts from Charles Mackay’s Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, covering the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and the Tulip Mania of 17th century Holland; plus the novels Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, which deals with the tulip mania, and The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, which deals with land speculation in 19th century America.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 932 ● ISBN 9781455447732 ● File size 1.0 MB ● Publisher Seltzer Books ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6576991 ● Copy protection without

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