In Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, the Victorian writer Charles Mackay describes a company formed during the South Sea Bubble in 1720 which declared in its prospectus that it was “for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is”. After investors hurried to buy shares, the founder “set off the same evening for the Continent” and was never heard of again.
维多利亚时期作家查尔斯•麦凯(Charles Mackay)在他的《非同寻常的大众幻想与群众性癫狂》(Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds)一书中,描述了一家在1720年“南海泡沫事件”期间成立的公司。这家公司在招股说明书中宣称,公司“从事一种可带来巨大收益的生意,但人们不必知道它是什么”。在投资者蜂拥购买其股票之后,该公司创始人“当晚动身前往欧洲大陆”,从此杳无音讯。
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