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Ahead of the Times: Flag-Waving Communication and Japan’s Dōjima Rice Exchange
The Dōjima Rice Exchange was established in Osaka nearly 300 years ago as a market for buying and selling rice securities. An intricate flag-waving communication network developed around it to quickly transmit prices and other market news to brokers in …