https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
While widely used as an example, most of the well-known stories about this were actually made up, and it wasn't as bad as it is often made out to be.
Quinn and Turner, when they wrote about bubbles:
* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48989633-boom-and-bust
* https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/i2wfsm/i_am_...
purposefully excluded it because their research found it wasn't actually a thing. (Though for the general public it can be an illustrative parable.)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
While widely used as an example, most of the well-known stories about this were actually made up, and it wasn't as bad as it is often made out to be.
Quinn and Turner, when they wrote about bubbles:
* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48989633-boom-and-bust
* https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/i2wfsm/i_am_...
purposefully excluded it because their research found it wasn't actually a thing. (Though for the general public it can be an illustrative parable.)