Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubble is mostly wrong

Re:Tulip mania: the classic story of a Dutch financial bubbl... by _pctq on Saturday February 17, 2018 @05:25AM (#16400043)

Additionally, it was not just any tulip that was traded so high, it was a specific strain that was considered especially beautiful and that people did not succeed in systematically reproduce. There was a good reason for that: the beauty was not caused by genes, but by a virus [1][2].