Gianni Mignone
1. Introduzione. – 2. La South Sea Company. – 3. Il Bubble Act. – 4. Lo scoppio della bolla. – 5. Conclusioni
The paper briefly traces the events related to the passing of the Bubble Act by the English Parliament in 1720 and the subsequent financial crisis called “South Sea Bubble”, focusing in particular on the temporal and causal relationships identified by recent historians between the two events.