Money for nothing : the scientists, fraudsters, and corrupt politicians who reinvented money, panicked a nation, and made the world rich (engelsk)

At the dawn of the eighteenth century, England was running out of money due to a prolonged war with France. They turned to the stock market. In the hub of London's stock market, the South Sea Company hatched a scheme to turn pieces of the national debt into shares of company stock. The financial revolution was subject to trial and error on a grand scale, with dramatic, sometimes devastating consequences for people's lives. Levenson chronicles the moment when the needs of war, discoveries of natural philosophy, and ambitions of investors collided.