Kilka słów o tym, jak tulipany chciały zawładnąć światem

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present the origin and development of the first speculative bubble that took place in the seventeenth century in Holland, called Tulipmania. On the basis of available literature it was possible to find out, that the main reason of that scandal was not the craze of the people, but lack of properly developed law, which at that time was not compatible with both capital markets development and the financial innovations.