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MENTAL MODEL · M3575

Tulip Mania

Tulip Mania
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

The first recorded financial bubble in the world, occurring in 17th-century Holland. Tulip bulb prices were bid up to astronomical levels, then crashed.

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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The fragility of consensus. When the price of an asset (such as NFTs, meme coins) depends entirely on the consensus that 'there will be a next person to take over', with no practical value to support it, it is a tulip. No matter how high it rises now, its value will eventually return to 'a flower'.

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In the 1630s, Dutch tulip bulb prices inflated into a bubble detached from fundamentals, then collapsed, making it one of the earliest recorded speculative bubbles in history.

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