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Individuals decide what the most marketable good is for use as a medium of exchange. Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy, Menger wrote, and so it is with deciding what is to be traded as money.Money has not been generated by law. In its origin it is a social, and not a state institution. 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What's eluded historians is the same issue that eludes commentators today: the underlying cause of bubbles.This book is the first (and only) book to solve the mystery of the most famous bubble in world history: Tulipmania in 17th century Netherlands. It Is a legendary event but explanations have been lacking. People blame irrational exuberance, free markets, and an unleashed aristocracy.Douglas French takes a different route: he follows the money to prove that the bubble resulted from a government intervention that dramatically exploded the money supply and fueled the tulip-price bubble - not altogether different from modern bubbles.This book was French's Master's thesis written under the direction of Murray Rothbard and examining three of the most famous speculative bubble episodes in history through the lens of Austrian Business Cycle Theory.Although each of these episodes is well documented, this book examines the monetary interventions that engendered each of these events showing that not only the Mississippi Bubble and the South Sea Bubble were caused by government meddling, but Tulipmania was as well.Tulipmania was unique in that it was the sound money policy of the Dutch combined with free coinage laws that led to an acute increase in the supply of money and fostered an atmosphere that was ripe for speculation and malinvestment, manifesting itself in the intense trading of tulip bulbs.The author examines not only the Mississippi Bubble but also the life and monetary theories of its architect, John Law. 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