by Malcolm Balen · Fourth Estate · tapa dura · ISBN 9781841155524
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«A Very English Deceit» is Malcolm Balen's financial history essay, published by Fourth Estate in hardcover (272 pages, in English).
Malcolm Balen reconstructs the South Sea Bubble: in 18th-century England, the South Sea Company sold shares in a business that promised trade with America without owning a single ship. The fraud involved royalty, politics and the professional classes, and the work narrates how it was executed and concealed, origin of stock market scandals.
First edition of 2002, published in London. Includes bibliographic references (pages 248-250) and index.
For those interested in economic history, stock market frauds and the origin of financial crises.
