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Confusion de Confusiones [1688]: Portions Descriptive of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange
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2013 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Joseph Penso de la Vega, best known as Joseph de la Vega (ca.1650-1692), was a successful Jewish merchant, poet, and philanthropist residing in 17th century Amsterdam. He became famous for his masterpiece "Confusion of Confusions" the oldest book ever wri
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Paperback, 68 pages
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July 17th 2013
by Martino Fine Books
(first published 1688)
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Joseph Penso de la Vegas was a well known Jewish merchant, poet, writer near Antwerp. He writes about things happening inside Amsterdam Stock Market. He gives little snippets of stories happening in everyday life.
He says people are driven with greed, they make up stories, deceit, switch sides just to make profits. I am sure that some of them still happen today in Modern Stock Market. There are four types of people who buy stocks:
i) Wealthy
ii) Occasional Speculators
iii) Bankers
iv) Merchants
Anywa ...more
He says people are driven with greed, they make up stories, deceit, switch sides just to make profits. I am sure that some of them still happen today in Modern Stock Market. There are four types of people who buy stocks:
i) Wealthy
ii) Occasional Speculators
iii) Bankers
iv) Merchants
Anywa ...more
From the introduction: "Here is a book written in Spanish by a Portuguese Jew, published in Amsterdam, cast in dialogue form, embellished from start to finish with biblical, historical, and mythological allusions, and yet concerned primarily with the business of the stock exchange and issued as early as 1688."
- An entertaining and surprisingly modern account of the Dutch East Indian Company and the Amsterdam stock exchange in their heyday.
- An entertaining and surprisingly modern account of the Dutch East Indian Company and the Amsterdam stock exchange in their heyday.
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