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>disprove that many poorer people could have spent less and were actually bankrupt, but that their fate wasn't recorded the way it was for the highest transacti

>disprove that many poorer people could have spent less and were actually bankrupt, but that their fate wasn't recorded the way it was for the highest transactions and their initiators. Sure, we can spend all day speculating about records may have existed but were lost. I mean, there are no evidence of alien involvement, maybe those records were lost too? It's also possible that the Tulip bubble was both short-lived and not very widespread and is just one of those stories that keeps getting bigger the more it gets re-told.

acqq 7y ago
> just one of those stories that keeps getting bigger There are apparently still records of 37 transactions paying more than a what was then "good yearly wage" for a bulb. Moreover, from another history book, after the "crash" "in Haarlem, the city with the biggest volume of tulip bulb trading and thus the city with the most problems" ... "the local court there refused to hear disputes relating to the tulip trade." That obviously lowered the chance of having the records about the direct effects of the crash.