I've read some more recent analysis that suggests that the tulip mania mostly only happened on paper and the contracts with the vast sums on them were mostly not actually executed. And that at any rate the tulip gambling was confined to a small group of people and hade little economic impact.
So now I have to do more reading to figure out if that's cope or not.
I like to believe it was a country-wide phenomena with a bunch of Dutch dorks in clogs clacking around with literal bundles of tulips in hand while they go grocery shopping
I've read some more recent analysis that suggests that the tulip mania mostly only happened on paper and the contracts with the vast sums on them were mostly not actually executed. And that at any rate the tulip gambling was confined to a small group of people and hade little economic impact.
So now I have to do more reading to figure out if that's cope or not.
I like to believe it was a country-wide phenomena with a bunch of Dutch dorks in clogs clacking around with literal bundles of tulips in hand while they go grocery shopping