Section 08 · 4 entries
Manias
Recorded events, not lessons.
Four entries on three recorded episodes, described as the contracts, inquiries and account books that survive them.
A settlement cycle at scale, in the hands. Every bundle is an obligation waiting to be matched against another.
Photo: cottonbro studio / PexelsThe entries
- 08 · 1
Tulips, as recorded
What the contemporary records actually show about the Dutch bulb trade, which is narrower and stranger than the popular account.
- 08 · 2
The railway boom
Enormous capital raised for lines that were built, plus lines that were not.
- 08 · 3
The South Sea affair
A debt conversion scheme wrapped in a trading monopoly, and the legislation that followed it.
- 08 · 4
What the accounts record
Where the surviving numbers come from, and their limits.