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Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library
URL: http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/

Description:
Exhibit about this series of events in which a "complex network of intersecting financial, legal, political, and cultural factors all contributed to the development of the South Sea Bubble, the eventual collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, and the financial ruin left in its wake." Features many images, and introductory material that points out the South Sea Bubble's significance in early 21st-century events such as the dotcom bubble. From Harvard Business School.

LII Topics: Economics, History

Publisher:
President and Fellows of Harvard College

LII Database Information:
Record 23382 created by Jennifer English on 02/22/2007
Last modification on 05/21/2008
Published: 05/22/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23382

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