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Rational Minds Part 2: The Myth Of Tulip Mania - Anne Goldgar

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The Class of the Dutch in the Early Modern Period

It strikes me that even if you were off by an order of magnitude it still wouldn't have been that many people as a percentage of the Dutch population at the time. You'll see them in the small claims court saying he said that he was going to give me this tulip if I gave him a spoon, a silver spoon which might be quite expensive but now it's not happening. So there is a degree of it spreading out but not to that extent and the tulips there were the cheapest kind that is plain white, plain yellow. Those are the ones that nobody wanted. They were called rags because they weren't nice enough.

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