Thus beginning with ancient Rome and the origins of financial speculation, Chancellor then takes an erudite journey through the forgotten touchpoints of speculative mania history – from “stockjobbing” in the London boom of the 1690s, to John Law and the South-Sea Mississippi Scheme, to the “Fool’s Gold” of the 1820s and the Railway Mania of 1845.
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