Delivery Company. Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) – Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble, is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme. David Copperfield (1850) – The false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield. Little Dorrit (1857) – The financial house of Mr Merdle. Robert Goddard's novel Sea Change (2000) covers the aftermath of the "bubble" and the attempts by politicians to evade responsibility and prevent a Jacobite restoration. See also List of stock market crashes and bear markets SSC coinage Tulip mania History of company law in the United Kingdom Whaling in the United Kingdom Mississippi Bubble Buttonwood Agreement USA 1792 Notes References Historical Carlos, Ann M. and Neal, Larry. (2006) "The Micro-Foundations of the Early London Capital Market: Bank of England shareholders during and after the South Sea Bubble, 1720–25" Economic History Review 59 (2006), pp. 498–538. online Dale, Richard (2004). The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble (Princeton University Press.) Freeman, Mark, Robin Pearson, and James Taylor. (2013) "Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600–1850." Business History 55#4 (2013): 636–652. online Harris, Ron (1994). "The Bubble Act: Its Passage and its Effects on Business Organization." The Journal of Economic History, 54 (3), 610–627 Hoppit, Julian. (2002) "The Myths of the South Sea Bubble," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, (2002) 12#1 pp 141–165 in JSTOR Kleer, Richard A. (2015) "Riding a wave: the Company's role in the South Sea Bubble." The Economic History Review 68.1 (2015): 264–285. online Löwe, Kathleen (2021) Die Südseeblase in der englischen Kunst des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Bilder einer Finanzkrise, Berlin: Reimer. McColloch, William E. (2013) "A shackled revolution? The Bubble Act and financial regulation in eighteenth-century England." Review of Keynesian Economics 1.3 (2013): 300–313. online Mackay, C. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) Marshall, Dorothy. (1962) Eighteenth Century England Longman. pp 121–30. Paul, Helen Julia (2010) The South Sea Bubble: an economic history of its origins and consequences, Routledge Explorations in Economic History online short summary Paul, Helen. (2013) The South Sea Bubble: An Economic History of its Origins and Consequences Routledge, 176 pp. Paul, Helen, The "South Sea Bubble", 1720, EGO – European History Online, Mainz: Institute of European History, 2015, retrieved: March 17, 2021 (pdf). Plumb, J. H. (1956) Sir Robert Walpole, vol. 1, The Making of a Statesman. ch