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Devil Take the Hindmost : A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor (2000, UK-B Format Paperback)

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A lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day. Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed--and not changed--over the last five hundred years? In Devil Take the Hindmost , Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland, to "stockjobbing" in London's Exchange Alley, to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720, which prompted Sir Isaac Newton to comment, "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." Here are brokers underwriting risks that included highway robbery and the "assurance of female chastity"; credit notes and lottery tickets circulating as money; wise and unwise investors from Alexander Pope and Benjamin Disraeli to Ivan Boesky and Hillary Rodham Clinton. From the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, from the nineteenth century railway mania to the crash of 1929, from junk bonds and the Japanese bubble economy to the day-traders of the Information Era, Devil Take the Hindmost tells a fascinating story of human dreams and folly through the ages.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0452281806
ISBN-13
9780452281806
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Devil Take the Hindmost : a History of Financial Speculation
Author
Edward Chancellor
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Investments & Securities / Futures, Economic History, Finance / General, Economics / Theory, Investments & Securities / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Business & Economics
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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9 in
Item Height
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Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
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"The subtle ways in which individual investors become drawn into crowd behavior is a much studied phenomenon, covered brilliantly... in the book Devil Take the Hindmost ."-- The Daily Telegraph (London) "The South Sea Company is one of the great bubble and crash stories. Many books have referred to it. One of the finest is Devil Take the Hindmost ."-- Debashis Basu, Money Life "Excellent."-- City A.M. "[An] essential history of financial manias."-- The Observer "A lively history of speculative manias and bubbles by a British banker turned writer."-- Susan Adams, Forbes, "The subtle ways in which individual investors become drawn into crowd behavior is a much studied phenomenon, covered brilliantly... in the book Devil Take the Hindmost ."-- The Daily Telegraph (London) "The South Sea Company is one of the great bubble and crash stories. Many books have referred to it. One of the finest is Devil Take the Hindmost ."-- Debashis Basu, Money Life "Excellent."-- City A.M. "[An] essential history of financial manias."-- The Observer "A lively history of speculative manias and bubbles by a British banker turned writer."-- Susan Adams, Forbes
Table of Content
Preface: Devil Take the Hindmost 1. "This Bubble World": The Origins of Financial Speculation 2. Stockjobbing in 'Change Alley: The Projecting Age of the 1690s 3. "The Never-to-Be-Forgot or Forgiven South-Sea Scheme" 4. Fool's Gold: The Emerging Markets of the 1820s 5. "A Ready Communication": The Railway Mania of 1845 6. "Befooled, Bewitched and Bedeviled": Speculation in the Gilded Age 7. The End of a New Era: The Crash of 1929 and Its Aftermath 8. Cowboy Capitalism: From Bretton Woods to Michael Milken 9. Kamikaze Capitalism: The Japanese Bubble Economy of the 1980s Epilogue: The Case of the Rogue Economists Notes For Further Reference Acknowledgments Index
Copyright Date
2000
Dewey Decimal
332.6/3228/09
Dewey Edition
21

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