Oct 13 2024 78 mins 4
Ökonom, Finanzminister, Glücksspieler – der Schotte John Law versprach Frankreich vor dem Bankrott zu retten und zerstörte stattdessen seine Finanzen und seine Kolonien. Doch wieso vertrauten die Menschen ihm überhaupt? Wieso war die Aktie seiner Kompanie für kurze Zeit so teuer? Und wieso hatten Menschen im frühen 18. Jahrhundert so ein Problem mit Glücksspielsucht?
Das alles und noch mehr besprechen Basti und Max in dieser Folge!
Worauf wir uns beziehen:
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CONGDON, Tim /LANDE, Lawrence: John Law and the invention of paper money, in: RSA Journal 139 (1991), S. 916 – 928.
HARRIS, Bob: Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century, Oxford 2022.
INGRASSIA, Catherine: The Pleasure of Business and the Business of Pleasure. Gender, Credit, and the South Sea Bubble, in: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 24 (1995), S. 191 – 210.
KAISER, Thomas E.: Money, Despotism, and Public Opinion in Early Eighteenth-Century France. John Law and the Debate on Royal Credit, in : The Journal of Modern History 63 (1991), S. 1 – 28.
KLEER, Richard: “The folly of particulars”. The Political Economy of the South Sea Bubble, in: Financial History Review 19 (2012), S. 175 – 197.
MENNING, Daniel: Politik, Ökonomie und Aktienspekulation. „South Sea Bubble“ und co. 1720, Berlin /Boston 2020.
MONTESQUIEU, Charles: Lettres Persanes, Amsterdam 1721.
PAUL, Helen J.: The South Sea Bubble. An Economic History of its Origins and Consequences (Routledge explorations in economic history 49); Abingdon /New York 2011.
PAUL, Helen J.: The South Sea Company’s slaving activities, in: The Economic History Society Annual Conference (2004), S. 16 – 20.
SPANG, Rebecca L.: The Ghost of Law. Speculating on Money, Memory and Mississippi in the French Constituent Assembly, in: Réflexions Historiques 31 (2005), S. 3 – 25.
VELDE, Francois R.: John Law’s System, in: The American Economic Review 97 (2007), 276 – 279.
VELDE, Francois R.: Was John Law’s System a bubble? The Mississippi Bubble revisisted, in: The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions. From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, hg. von Jeremy ATACK /Larry NEAL, Cambridge 2009, S. 99 – 120.
WHATLEY, Warren /PRICE, Gregory: Did profitable slave trading enable the expansion of empire? The Asiento de Negros, the South Sea Company and the financial revolution in Great Britain, in: Cliometrica 15 (2021), S. 675 – 718.
