Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters Episode 6, The Mississippi Bubble Episode 6, The Mississippi Bubble.

Streaming video - 2018

Delve into the details of the Mississippi bubble, an early 18th-century financial crisis sparked by speculation in the anticipated wealth of French Louisiana. Learn how the bubble's instigator, John Law, a Scottish gambler and convicted murderer, gained control of the French economy and pushed ideas that were ahead of their time - so far ahead that they plunged France into economic collapse.

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Education films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses 2018.
2020.
Language
English
Other Authors
The Great Courses (film director), Connel Fullenkamp (actor)
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).