Tulip mania
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Tulip mania or tulipomania (Dutch names include: tulpenmanie, tulpomanie, tulpenwoede, tulpengekte and bollengekte) was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.
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See also
- Greater fool theory
- Orchidelirium – the Victorian era of flower madness when orchid collecting became a popular craze
- South Sea Bubble – a speculative bubble that peaked in 1720 before collapsing
- Tulip period (21 July 1718 – 28 September 1730) – a tulip craze that symbolized the conflicts of early modern consumer culture in the Ottoman Empire
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