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Zeen Train
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Finished this book by Anne Goldgar and didn't realize Tulipmania as we know it was mostly untrue? Or at least the interpretations we get from Madness of Crowds Reminds me of when NFTs went crazy in 2021. Plenty of think-pieces but in reality, volume was driven by a small cohort of individuals
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Zeen Train
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Favorite quote: "Communities find themselves at a loss when value is thrown into doubt. Tulipmania did exactly this. By creating a novel set of cultural values and potentially altering a longstanding social framework, Tulipmania rendered unstable the whole notion of how to assess value."
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