Reinterpreting the First Great Stock Market Crash: South Sea, Mississippi & Windhandel Bubbles

The greatest stock market bubble in history still holds lessons for today. Drawing from his financial research and objects from Yale collections, Professor William Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, discusses the finance, art, and culture of the global capital in 1720 and their parallels to the modern era during his lecture at the 2013 Yale Presidential Inauguration Symposium on Friday, October 11, 2013.