Regarding Barkley's mention of the problems in MacKay's treatment of the Tulipmania: One of the key uncertainties is the role of the Amsterdam city government and local church officials in creating stories (or perpetuating rumors) to illustrate the immorality of the exuberant pursuit of profits in the bulb market. The classic dialogue between Waermondt and Gaergoedt ("True-mouth" and "Greedy-Goods"), often used to describe the "college" trade of bulbs (a key part of the price run-up), is a good example of a story that was probably concocted as a morality tale. Kindleberger's accounts of the early bubbles may depend too heavily upon MacKay-like versions. If I may self-promote, the interdisciplinary collection I edited, *Great Bubbles*, has quite a bit of contemporary and modern material on the tulipmania, Law's Mississippi Scheme, and the South Sea Bubble. As several people have already mentioned, some of the best work has appeared since my volumes. Ross Emmett