"THE EXTRAVAGANT HUMOUR OF STOCK-JOBBING” AND THE MEMBERS OF THE ENGLISH BODY POLITIC, 1690-1720
The title of a 1697 pamphlet about London’s stock-jobbers referred to the “extravagant humour of stock-jobbing,” using the imagery of contemporary medical knowledge to suggest that stock-jobbers represented a potentially unbalancing element within the English body-politic. Members of different socia...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Economic & Business History Society
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Essays in Economic and Business History |
| Online Access: | http://ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/219 |