| 单词 | mississippi scheme |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMississippi Scheme Mississippi Scheme n. French History a financial scheme operated between 1717 and 1720 by the Scottish banker, John Law (1671–1729), as a measure to reduce the French public debt, which failed when speculation in the stock of the Compagnie de la Louisiane ou d'Occident, which controlled French trade and colonization in North America, led to an uncontrolled rise and subsequent crash in share prices. ΚΠ 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxxi. 205 The first money that returned from the second creation of actions in the Missisippi-scheme, in which he was an adventurer. 1842 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 524 A species of speculative frenzy seized the people, similar to what we have examples of in Law's Mississippi Scheme, in France. 1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 353/1 San Moisè, where is buried a sinner, John Law, of the Mississippi Scheme, on whom be peace! 1999 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 32 135 The querulous, vindictive aftermath of the collapse of joint stocks in the Bubble and the evaporation of the Mississippi Scheme. < as lemmas |
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