The Bubble ACT: New Perspectives from Passage to Repeal and Beyond (Paperback, 2023)

Introduction.- The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy.- 'Mr Morice is said to appear at the head': The Bubble Act and an Aborted Joint-Stock Slave-Trading Company.- 'That ever-memorable year of epidemical infatuation': Incorporation, the Jamaica Mines Company, and the Bubble Act of 1720.- Pamphlet Poetry and the South Sea Bubble.- Decoding the Bubble: Popular Magic, Financial Deception, and Eliza Haywood's Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to Utopia.- Consequences Unintended: The Bubble Act and American Independence.- Capitalism by Generalists: The Governance of the Ayr Bank and the Emergence of Professionalism in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Scottish Banking.- Royal Charters, Royal Power, and the Business of Empire.- Babbage's Age of Speculation: Calculating the Value of Life After the Repeal of the Bubble Act.- The Repeal of the Bubble Act and the Debate Between the Currency School and the Banking School.- Agency Houses in Bengal and the Indigo Bubble.- Epilogue.