Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Chancellor, Edward

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

A lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day....
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Author: Edward Chancellor
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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Chancellor, Edward

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

CHF 26.02

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

CHF 26.02
Author: Edward Chancellor
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Edward Chancellor
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 06/01/2000
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.99w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780452281806
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/11/2000 pg. 36

About the Author
Edward Chancellor studied history in Great Britain at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities. In the early 1990s he worked for the investment bank Lazard Brothers. He is a freelance journalist, and lives in London.

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