A New Company
Notes
1. A World-Famous Book
1. See the glossary at the back of the book for explanations of financial
terminology.
2. Joseph Penso de la Vega, Confusión de confusiones. Portions Descrip-
tive of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (1688), ed. and trans. Hermann
Kellenbenz (Boston: Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration,
1957), 22. The original book in Spanish and its translation into Dutch can
be found at http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/vega002conf01_01/. The Kellenbenz
translation can be found at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.321060
19504239;view=1up;seq=13.
Quotations in English are taken from Kellenbenz, where they exist, and
the appropriate page number is given; the title is given as Confusion. Where
Kellenbenz did not translate a section, the Dutch version has been translated
into English by the translator of the present book. The page numbers in these
cases refer to the Spanish original, and the title is given as Confusión.
3. M. F. J. Smith, “Inleiding,” in Joseph Penso de la Vega, Confusión de
confusiones (1688), ed. M. F. J. Smith (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1939),
1–47.
4. German edition: Joseph Penso de la Vega, Die Verwirrung der Verwir-
rungen: vier Dialoge uber die Borse in Amsterdam (1688), ed. and trans.
Otto Pringsheim (Breslau, 1919); English edition: Penso de la Vega, Confu-
sion, ed. and trans. Kellenbenz.
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