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A Very English Deceit: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal
By (author) Malcolm Balen
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The early years of the 18th century produced two great monuments - one, Christopher Wren's new cathedral of St Paul's, an enduring testament to principled craft and masterful construction, and 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 a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is . This 18th 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. Malcolm 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.
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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 5 May 2003
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Format | Paperback
Pages | 272
Dimensions | 197 x 130 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 203g
ISBN | 978-1-8411-5553-1
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BISAC | history / europe / great britain
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