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Crisis financieras en perspectiva histórica: de la tulipomanía a la burbuja del Mississippi

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  • Joan Hortalà Arau

    (Catedrático emérito de Teoría Económica – Universidad de Barcelona)

Abstract

Las crisis financieras han acompañado el desarrollo de los mercados organizados desde sus primeras etapas históricas. El presente trabajo ofrece un análisis histórico-descriptivo de tres de las primeras grandes crisis especulativas de la historia financiera moderna: la crisis de los tulipanes en la República Holandesa (1637), la burbuja de los Mares del Sur en Inglaterra (1720) y la burbuja del Mississippi en Francia (1720). Mediante un enfoque comparativo y fundamentado en la historiografía económica clásica, el estudio examina el contexto económico, los mecanismos financieros, la dinámica especulativa y las respuestas institucionales asociadas a cada episodio. El análisis se sitúa dentro del marco teórico de los ciclos económicos y financieros, integrando aportaciones de autores fundamentales como Juglar, Schumpeter, Minsky y Kindleberger. Los resultados ponen de manifiesto la recurrencia de patrones comunes caracterizados por la expansión del crédito, la euforia especulativa, la fragilidad institucional y el colapso abrupto de las expectativas. Las conclusiones refieren que las crisis forman parte inherente de la evolución histórica de los mercados financieros y del propio desarrollo económico.

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  • Joan Hortalà Arau, 2026. "Crisis financieras en perspectiva histórica: de la tulipomanía a la burbuja del Mississippi," Revista de Economía y Finanzas (REyF), Asociación Cuadernos de Economía, vol. 4(10), pages 41-49, Enero.
  • Handle: RePEc:cud:journ2:v:4:y:2026:i:10:p:41-49
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    JEL classification:

    • N20 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • N23 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Europe: Pre-1913
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • B26 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Financial Economics
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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