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Until the late 1800s, moments of widespread high-risk financial gambling weren’t considered manias but the results of individual actors, who bore responsibility for the disastrous results.
The real story of the South Sea Bubble and what happened when it burst 300 years ago.
There are a lot of similarities between the state of tech companies today and when the 2000 dot-com bubble burst.
From a peak of US$19,783, Bitcoin’s value has fallen by 80%. What makes Bitcoin worth anything?
Markets follow a mix of economic reasoning, human emotion and out-of-control algorithms.
Brexit, bots and jobs and bitcoin are set to dominate economics news in 2018.
An analysis of Bitcoin’s fundamentals shows how much of a bubble its price has inflated to.
If you can’t use Bitcoin to buy anything then it has no intrinsic value.
It hasn’t been a good round of earnings for Silicon Valley’s big names.
While the current speculation in crypto-currency and assets should make us pause, this is not a speculative driven bubble like tulips, or gold mining stocks.
Bankers are back to their old ways, putting the global economy at risk just six years after standing at the brink of another Great Depression.
Science, like any other field that attracts investment, is prone to bubbles. Overly optimistic investments in scientific fields, research methods and technologies generate episodes comparable to those…
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Professor of Practice, Associate Dean, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Professor of Finance, Washington University in St Louis
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Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Professor of Finance, University of Exeter
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Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Deputy Head of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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