Найти книгу: "The South Sea Bubble and Tulipomania - Financial Madness and Delusion (Unabridged)"

These two unabridged chapters from Charles Mackay's two-volume evergreen work, Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) deal with the disastrous South Sea Bubble and the extraordinary outbreak of Tulipomania in Holland. The South Sea Company, a British joint stock company founded in 1711, was granted a monopoly to trade in Spain's South American colonies. In return, the company took on the national debt of England. Speculation in the company's stock led to a great economic bubble known as the South Sea Bubble in 1720, which caused financial ruin for many, including the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Aislabie. Mackay describes this exciting period with great relish and in considerable detail. Tulipomania was an equally bizarre and tragicomic period in Dutch history when almost the whole population began trading and speculating in tulip bulbs, leading to the financial ruin of thousands. At the height of tulip mania, in 1637, a single tulip bulb might sell for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. It is often considered the first recorded economic bubble.For those interested in contemporary finance, economics or social history these incidents are sure to delight and horrify in equal measure. Also included is Mackay's amusing chapter on the passing fashions in slang in London. The South Sea Bubble and Tulipomania: Financial Madness and Delusion is read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio.

The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless – or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures and the carved stones tens of millions of years old.

Хенрик Петерссон, известный как Эйч Пи, некогда вступил в странную Игру, в которой таинственный Гейм-мастер управляет людьми, как марионетками, заставляя их делать страшные вещи. Пережив ряд смертельно опасных злоключений, Эйч Пи вышел на самого Хозяина Игры. Тот сообщил ему, что Хенрика ждет последнее задание, после выполнения которого он сможет поступать так, как считает нужным: либо выйти из Игры, либо подняться на новый уровень. Но когда Эйч Пи узнает, что ему надо сделать, то буквально столбенеет. Оказывается, он должен взорвать свадебный кортеж шведской кронпринцессы… Задание из разряда невыполнимых. Или выполнимых, но ценою жизни. А отказаться от него нельзя – на кону судьба сестры Хенрика. Итак, Игра подходит к концу. Но еще есть время сыграть по своим правилам…

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