3. The ‘bubble’ as an economic and financial metaphor All the dimensions and meanings of the bubble metaphor explained so far converged, in their application to the world of finance, in the aforementioned ‘South Sea Bubble’, which took place in London in 1720 (Carswell, 1960; Dale, 2016...
“Boris and Brexit,” the Daily Telegraph, must paint increasingly rococo pictures of our apocalyptic fates should we not roll back a left-wing consensus that last won an election in 2005; David Frost, the man who negotiated Johnon’s much-vaunted deal, and thus left Northern Ireland adrift...
Atally stick(or simply atally[1]) was an ancient memory aid used to record and document numbers, quantities, and messages. Tally sticks first appear as animal bones carved with notches during theUpper Palaeolithic; a notable example is theIshango Bone. Historical reference is made byPliny the...
In the honourable fashion of Messrs Reckless and Carswell I am looking forward to watching the outcome of the forthcoming bye elections. DennisA February 20, 2019 For Mrs Soubry it will indeed be a Byeee election Mark B February 20, 2019 Anna Soubry MP wanted our kind host a...
All week I have been seeing blogs and comments written by lefties proclaiming idiotically that Douglas Carswell's defection to UKIP was the beginning of the end, that the UKIP bubble had burst and so on. Pretty much what they were saying in the days after UKIP had trounced the mainstream pa...
Baddeley, M., McCombie, J. (2001). An Historical Perspective on Speculative Bubbles and Financial Crises: Tulipmania and the South Sea Bubble. In: Arestis, P., Baddeley, M., McCombie, J. (eds) What Global Economic Crisis?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/97803339...