• Introduction
• Movie
• Historical Gallery
• Further Reading
• More from HBS

Movie

This four-minute movie tells the story of the South Sea Bubble and illuminates some striking parallels to the modern high-tech bubble. The historical resources in the movie are from the collections of Baker Library at Harvard Business School.

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