Joseph de la Vega
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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.
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Idealized portrait, artist unknown
View of the two synagogues of Amsterdam from the East by Gerrit Berckheyde.
Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam) by Peter Schenk the Elder It is the area where De la Vega grew up.
Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange by Emanuel de Witte (1653)
Courtyard of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange by Job Berckheyde, circa 1670.Writers from Netherlands 6
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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.
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