One more thing: an aspect of the tulip mania is the secondary effects in other parts of the economy. The best known example would be Rembrandt, who makes a ton of money painting portraits of people who are making a ton of money buying/selling tulips, and then goes bankrupt when all his clients go bankrupt, losing everything he had and then losing his wife to illness. He ends up marrying his housemaid (one way to keep her employed, I guess), and it isn’t until the last few years of his life that he starts getting commissions again, and the Dutch economy begins to recover from the crash.
Interesting side-note on Rembrandt in relation to Tulip Mania.