For the online conference Making Sense of Finance on Friday 12 March 2021, we asked some of the participants to present a historical source or object to explain their field of research or their academic interests. With this we would like to show the expertise that individual participants bring to the table of the conference.... Continue Reading →
How can we learn from the past to reconnect finance with the public? Date: 12 March 2021 We are delighted to announce that registration is open for the Making Sense of Finance conference on 12 March 2021. The conference will be broadcast live from De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam. 300 years of sense making:It is... Continue Reading →
Date and time:24 March 202101.00 pm (GMT)/08.00 am (EST)/10.00 pm (JST) As part of a webinar series of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, Christian Borch (Sociology, Copenhagen Business School) will talk about the relationship between crowds, cities and financial markets. According to late nineteenth-century crowd theory, modern cities are overwhelmed... Continue Reading →
The annual conference of 2021 is all about the history of finance. 2020 marks the 300-year anniversary of the 1720 South Sea Bubble, a turning point in the history of finance. Starting in France, England and the Low Countries, the bubbles left their mark on Europe and beyond. They also sparked a wide public debate... Continue Reading →
We are pleased to resume the sessions of the Early modern financial history online seminars from October 2021. Please see below for registration and more information. Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 CET (via Zoom) Christoph Dominik Blum (Tübingen University): The role of the stock corporation in the German Railway Mania. Tuesday 23 November 2021, 15:00-16:00 CET (via Zoom) François... Continue Reading →
4 February 202112.00 - 12.45 CETOn zoom eabh in conversation with Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) based on a joint paper by Sebastian Horn, Carmen M. Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch The scale of official (bilateral and multilateral) lending is hugely relevant, yet has received little academic attention – so far. Now, Christoph Trebesch... Continue Reading →
The Center for Early Modern History invites us to join the fall lecture series, Panic and Plague in 1720 & 2020: The View from Minnesota. In 1720, the Mississippi Company, a project of financial speculation in the Mississippi River region, collapsed. The explosion of this financial bubble coincided and was entangled with the last mass outbreak... Continue Reading →
Volume 54, Number 1, Fall 2020 Special Issue: The South Sea Bubble, Mississippi Bubble, and Financial Revolution Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal publishes different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses that explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars... Continue Reading →
Paris, 1720. Throngs of frenzied speculators gather on rue Quincampoix, seduced by the promise of spectacular wealth awaiting investors in the Compagnie des Indes. The manic trade in stock shares fuels an unprecedented bull market that culminates in the world’s first international financial disaster: the collapse of the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles, named after... Continue Reading →
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