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- For a more recent and way more reliable book on economics mania I would suggest “Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles” by William Quinn and John D. Turner
- When Quinn and Turner wrote their book Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles they concluded Tulipmania was not a bubble and so did't include it:
* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48989633-boom-and-bus...
Quinn did an AMA when the book was published (2020):
* https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/i2wfsm/i_am_...
* Book talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLl3Ijb01I0
Garber does have it though, along with Mississippi and South Sea:
* https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262571531/famous-first-bubbles/
See also perhaps Perez's book on tech hype and bubbles (starting with Canalmania):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_...
- Neither of these were technologically based speculations.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
While widely used as an example, most of the well-known stories about this were actually made up, and it wasn't as bad as it is often made out to be.
Quinn and Turner, when they wrote about bubbles:
* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48989633-boom-and-bust
* https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/i2wfsm/i_am_...
purposefully excluded it because their research found it wasn't actually a thing. (Though for the general public it can be an illustrative parable.)
