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Devil Take the Hindmost : A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374138583
ISBN-139780374138585
eBay Product ID (ePID)870147
Product Key Features
Book TitleDevil Take the Hindmost : a History of Financial Speculation
Number of Pages386 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicInvestments & Securities / Stocks, Investments & Securities / General
Publication Year1999
GenreBusiness & Economics
AuthorEdward Chancellor
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-012668
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"Edward Chancellor has combined his considerable talents as historian and banker to produce a riveting account of financial bubbles, followed by busts, in Britain, the United States, and Japan . . . Here is a lagniappe for the banker, broker, investor, and idle Wall Street onlooker."--Charles P. Kindleberger, author of Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Dewey Decimal332.6/3228/09
SynopsisA lively and authoritative look at speculation from early modern times to the present. Focusing on speculation as it developed in the world's leading stock markets, Edward Chancellor's story starts with the tulipomania in seventeenth-century Holland, then moves to Britain with accounts of speculative manias such as the South Sea Bubble and the Railway Mania. From the mid-nineteenth century, the narrative turns to the United States, with chapters on the Gilded Age, the Roaring Twenties, and the revival of speculation since the early 1970s, then portrays the disastrous Bubble Economy of Japan in the 1980s. Chancellor shows that the impulses that have shaped speculative behavior are at odds with the orthodox theory of efficient markets. His comprehensive history is interspersed with trenchant commentary on speculation in the 1990s, including such current issues as emerging markets, Internet and foreign-currency speculation, rogue traders, the great U.S. bull market, and our current financial predicament.
LC Classification NumberHG6005.C48 1999
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