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  1. Tulip mania - Wikipedia

    • Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels. The major acceleration started in 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative bubble … See more

    Background and history

    The introduction of the tulip to Europe is often questionably attributed to Ogier de Busbecq, the ambassador of
    Their … See more

    Available price data

    The lack of consistently recorded price data from the 1630s makes the extent of the tulip mania difficult to discern. The bulk of available data comes from an anonymous satire, Dialogues between Waermondt and Gaergoedt… See more

    Mackay's Madness of Crowds

    The modern discussion of tulip mania began with the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, published in 1841 by the Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. He proposed that crowds of people o… See more

    Modern views

    Mackay's account of inexplicable mania was unchallenged, and mostly unexamined, until the 1980s. Research into tulip mania since then, especially by proponents of the efficient-market hypothesis, suggests that his story w… See more

    Social mania and legacy

    The popularity of Mackay's tale has continued to this day, with new editions of Extraordinary Popular Delusions appearing regularly, with introductions by writers such as financier Bernard Baruch (1932), financial writer … See more

    Further reading

    • Boissoneault, Lorraine (September 18, 2017). "There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever". Smithsonian. Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on December 19, 2022. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
    • Cos, Pieter (1637), … See more

     
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