The Bubble Act : New Perspectives from Passage to Repeal and Beyond

Introduction -- The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy -- ‘Mr Morice is said to appear at the head’: The Bubble Act and an Aborted Joint-Stock Slave-Trading Company -- ‘That ever-memorable year of epidemical infatuation’: Incorporation, the Jamaica Mines Company, and the Bubble Act of 1720 -- Pamphlet Poetry and the South Sea Bubble -- Decoding the Bubble: Popular Magic, Financial Deception, and Eliza Haywood’s Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to Utopia -- Consequences Unintended: The Bubble Act and American Independence -- Capitalism by Generalists: The Governance of the Ayr Bank and the Emergence of Professionalism in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Scottish Banking -- Royal Charters, Royal Power, and the Business of Empire -- Babbage’s Age of Speculation: Calculating the Value of Life After the Repeal of the Bubble Act -- The Repeal of the Bubble Act and the Debate Between the Currency School and the Banking School -- Agency Houses in Bengal and the Indigo Bubble -- Epilogue.