Financial market analysis can go mad (in the search for irrational behaviour during the South Sea Bubble)

Economic History Review

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 742-765

  Shea, Gary S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 35348981845     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00379.x     Document Type: Note

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