In a column in November, “Isaac Newton Learned About Financial Gravity the Hard Way,” I looked at a new study of the investing career of the great physicist.
The great scientist was a hapless investor, careful research by scholar Andrew Odlyzko found. Now, in an updated version of his study, Prof. Odlyzko documents that Newton fell even harder than previously thought for one of the worst speculative bubbles of all time….
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This article was originally published on The Wall Street Journal.
Further reading
Andrew Odlyzko’s research papers, http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/bubbles.html
Jason Zweig, Your Money and Your Brain
Jason Zweig, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary
Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor
John Carswell, The South Sea Bubble
Richard Dale, The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble
Thomas Levenson, Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist
South Sea Bubble Collection at the Baker Library, Harvard University, https://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/collection.html
Isaac Newton Learned About Financial Gravity the Hard Way, http://jasonzweig.com/isaac-newton-learned-about-financial-gravity-the-hard-way/
Escaping the Magnetic Pull of a Bubble, http://jasonzweig.com/escaping-the-magnetic-pull-of-a-bubble/
The Extraordinary Popular Delusion of Bubble-Spotting, http://jasonzweig.com/the-extraordinary-popular-delusion-of-bubble-spotting/
Searching for the First Bubble, http://jasonzweig.com/searching-for-the-first-bubble/
The Extraordinary Popular Delusion of Believing What You Read, http://jasonzweig.com/the-extraordinary-popular-delusion-of-believing-what-you-read/
A Short History of Folly, http://jasonzweig.com/a-short-history-of-folly/
The Museum of Art and Finance Gallery 1: Tulipmania, http://jasonzweig.com/the-museum-of-art-and-finance-gallery-1-tulipmania/