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Joseph de la Vega

Merchant and writer · 1650–1692

Sephardi · EstablishedOttoman, North African & Western Centers

Sephardic merchant of Amsterdam whose Confusión de Confusiones (1688) is the first book ever written about the stock exchange.

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