The Bubble Act : new perspectives from passage to repeal and beyond /: new perspectives from passage to repeal and beyond. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Helen Paul, Nicholas Di Liberto, D'Maris Coffman.
• Editors: Paul, Helen J, 1975-; Di Liberto, Nicholas; Coffman, D'Maris, 1973-
• Contents: Introduction – Helen Paul The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy – Robin Pearson 'Mr Morice is said to appear at the head': The Bubble Act and an Aborted Joint-Stock Slave-Trading Company – Matthew David Mitchell 'That ever-memorable year of epidemical infatuation': Incorporation, the Jamaica Mines Company, and the Bubble Act of 1720 – Aaron Graham Pamphlet Poetry and the South Sea Bubble – Claire Wilkinson Decoding the Bubble: Popular Magic, Financial Deception, and Eliza Haywood's Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to Utopia – Alison Daniell Consequences Unintended: The Bubble Act and American Independence – Robert E. Wright Capitalism by Generalists: The Governance of the Ayr Bank and the Emergence of Professionalism in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Scottish Banking – Paul Kosmetatos Royal Charters, Royal Power, and the Business of Empire – Helen Paul Babbage's Age of Speculation: Calculating the Value of Life After the Repeal of the Bubble Act – Edward Gillin The Repeal of the Bubble Act and the Debate Between the Currency School and the Banking School – Charles Read Agency Houses in Bengal and the Indigo Bubble – Tehreem Husain and Nadeem Aftab Epilogue – Julian Hoppit.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (368 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 332.0941; Articles of incorporation -- History; Economic history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031318948
• Related ISBNs: 9783031318931
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