John Blunt was born the son of a shoemaker, but rose to become one of the key architects of the South Sea Company, the business at the centre of Britain’s first major stock market crisis in 1720. Hosts Robin Wigglesworth and Gillian Tett speak to Professor Thomas Levenson about the speculation and financial engineering that inflated the South Sea Bubble, the strange copycat schemes it inspired and how its dramatic fallout helped reshape modern finance.
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