Word: dwaasheid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest in connection with the present stock market decline is a book in the Baker Library of the Business School which deals with the first big stock inflation in history. It is called "He Groote, Tafereel der Dwaasheid" (The Great Picture of Foolishness) and is a collection of Dutch cartoons and satires on the speculative craze that resulted in John Law's Mississippi Company on the Continent and the South Sea Bubble in England. The book was stated on the title page to be "Printed as a Warning for Posterity, in the fatal year, of many Follies Among the Wise...
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