# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-de-la-vega
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:14:53.574Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-de-la-vega"
name: "Joseph de la Vega"
slug: "joseph-de-la-vega"
description: "José or Joseph Penso de la Vega, best known as Joseph de la Vega, was a Sephardic Jewish merchant in diamonds, financial expert, moral philosopher and poet, that resided across Western Europe. He became famous for his masterpiece Confusion of Confusions originally written in Spanish. Vega's work is the first study written about the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and its participants, the shareholders. In a stilted style he describes the whole gamut, running from options, futures contracts, margin buying, to bull and bear conspiracies, even some form of stock-index trading. The publication of Confusión de Confusiones helped lay the foundations for modern fields of technical analysis and behavioral finance."
tagline: "Jewish Hispano-Dutch merchant, poet, and philanthropist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JoseDelaVega.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1650"
deathDate: "1692-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.64
  momentum:             2.268562936207837
  historical:           9.242156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  1
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.fese.eu"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "جوزيف دي لا فيغا"
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    title: "Joseph de la Vega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_de_la_Vega"
    title: "Joseph de la Vega"
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    title: "José Penso de la Vega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "יוסף דה לה וגה"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-country-fill