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"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: "the greater fool theory." Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay thousands for a tulip bulb (or for that matter an Internet stock), as long as there is an even greater fool out there willing to pay even more, doing so is the most logical thing in the world."
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tulipomania
tulips
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Michael Pollan |
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And it'd be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.
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tulips
seattle
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Stephen Briggs Terry Pratchett |
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Tulips were a tray of jewels.
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e-m-forster
howards-end
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tulips
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E.M. Forster |