"I am not master of events": The speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea bubbles

I Am Not Master of Events: The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-214

  Neal, Larry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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