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The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble: The World's First Great Financial Scandal

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The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble: The World's First Great Financial Scandal
- History
- Malcolm Balen
- Great Britain
- Europe
- Financial Scandal
The early years of the eighteenth-century produced two great monuments: one, Christopher Wrenâ€™s new cathedral of St Paulâ€™s, an enduring testament to principled craft and masterful construction. The other an empty fraud of such magnitude that its collapse threatened to overturn monarchies and governments. Its failure delayed the introduction of modern market economies by two generations. Yet the full scale of this monumental deceit was quietly covered up and hidden, its enduring legacy a poorly understood colloquialism: the South Sea Bubble. It was all planned by one ambitious promoter, who had decided to launch â€˜a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it isâ€™. This eighteenth-century mission statement has now acquired an almost uncanny resonance: these words could aptly have been applied to the bursting of the Internet bubble and the collapse of Enron. With the financial scandals that have beset global companies recently, such as Rank Xerox and Worldcom, this tale is all the more relevant today. Balen reveals the full story of corruption and scandal that attended the birth of the first shareholder economy, and with it uncovers a parable for our times.

Country	USA
Author	Malcolm Balen
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780007161775
Edition	1
ISBN	0007161778
Label	Harper
Manufacturer	Harper
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	256
PublicationDate	2003-04-29
Publisher	Harper
ReleaseDate	2003-04-29
Studio	Harper

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