Money for Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson

Money for Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism

Thomas Levenson

400 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction business economics history informative slow-paced
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The South Sea Company was formed to trade with Asian and Latin American countries. But it had almost no ships and did precious little trade. Instead it got into financial fraud on a massive scale, taking over the government's debt and promising to...

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