Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author:
Douglas French
Online Publish Date:
Volume 9, No. 1 (Spring 2006) When the economics profession turns its attention to financial panics and crashes, the first episode mentioned is tulipmania. In fact, tulipmania has become a metaphor in the economics field. Should one look up tulipmania in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics , a discussion of the seventeenth century Dutch