Confusion of Confusions

This seventeenth-century masterpiece is still considered to be one of the ten best books ever written on the stock exchange business. Joseph de la Vega was a gifted and prolific writer, a merchant and an intellectual who also maintained a lively correspondence with a number of sovereigns and other pre-eminent contemporaries. In 'Confusion de Confusiones' the reader is confronted with the many guiles, manners and rules that were formerly represented on the Amsterdam stock exchange. De la Vega's indignation with the excesses he observed around him comes across as surprising, refreshing and even current in these modern times.