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Levenson, Thomas.
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Stock exchanges -- England -- History -- 18th century.
England -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720.
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Levenson, Thomas.
Stock exchanges -- England -- History -- 18th century.
England -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720.
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Money
for
nothing
: the
scientists
,
fraudsters
, and
corrupt
politicians
,
who
reinvented
money
,
panicked
a
nation
, and
made
the
world
rich
/ Thomas Levenson.
by
Levenson, Thomas.
Random House, 2020.
Call #:
330.942 L657m
Subjects
Stock exchanges -- England -- History -- 18th century.
England -- Economic conditions -- 18th century.
South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720.
ISBN:
9780812998467 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xv, 453 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-433) and index.
Summary:
"
Money
for
Nothing
chronicles the moment when the needs of war, discoveries of natural philosophy, and ambitions of investors collided. It's about how the Scientific Revolution intertwined with finance to set England--and the world--off in an entirely new direction. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, England was running out of
money
due to a prolonged war with France. Parliament tried raising additional funds by selling debt to its citizens, taking in
money
now with the promise of interest later. It was the first permanent national debt, but still they needed more. They turned to the stock market--a relatively new invention itself--where Isaac Newton's new mathematics of change of time, which he applied to the motions of the planets and the natural
world
, were fast being applied to the
world
of
money
. What kind of future returns could a person expect on an investment today? The Scientific Revolution could help. In the hub of London's stock market--Exchange Alley--the South Sea Company hatched a scheme to turn pieces of the national debt into shares of company stock, and over the spring of 1720 the plan worked brilliantly. Stock prices doubled, doubled again, and then doubled once more, getting everyone in London from tradespeople to the Prince of Wales involved in a
money
mania that consumed the people, press, and pocketbooks of the empire. Unlike science, though, with its tightly controlled experiments, the financial revolution was subject to trial and error on a grand scale, with dramatic, sometimes devastating consequences for people's lives. With England at war and in need of funds and "stock-jobbers" looking for any opportunity to get in on the action, this new
world
of finance had the potential to save the nation-- but only if it didn't bankrupt it first"--From publisher.
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