著者

蕗谷 硯児 Kenji FUKIYA 桃山学院大学経済学部

雑誌

国際文化論集 = INTERCULTURAL STUDIES (ISSN:09170219)

巻号頁・発行日

no.14, pp.101-141, 1996-09-30

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Dr. Tatsunosuke Ueda regarded the famous South Sea Bubble of 1720 as being as much a literary affair of the first magnitude as a social, economic and political affair. (T. Ueda. The South Sea Bubble in English Literature, Misuzu Shobo, Japan, 1995, p.42) From the same point of view, this article describes: 1) the historical background of the South Sea Bubble, 2) John Law and the Mississippi Bubble of 1720 (France), 3) the course and details of the South Sea Affair, 4) the catastrophe, crime and punishment of the authors of great mischief, 5) the South Sea Bubble and Sir Robert Walpole, 6) the news reports by Daniel Defoe (extracts quoted in the article of Dr. Ueda). From this analysis, we can understand that Japanese Heisei (financial and real estates) Bubble of the present time, is not an exceptional affair, but a very familiar and universal one.