Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
ISBN-13:
9780452281806
ISBN-10:
0452281806
Edition:
Reissue
Author:
Edward Chancellor
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
Plume
Format:
Paperback
400 pages
Category:
Economic History
,
Economics
,
Theory
,
Futures
,
Investing
,
Education & Reference
,
Business
,
Encyclopedias & Subject Guides
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ISBN-13:
9780452281806
ISBN-10:
0452281806
Edition:
Reissue
Author:
Edward Chancellor
Publication date:
2000
Publisher:
Plume
Format:
Paperback
400 pages
Category:
Economic History
,
Economics
,
Theory
,
Futures
,
Investing
,
Education & Reference
,
Business
,
Encyclopedias & Subject Guides
Summary
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (ISBN-13: 9780452281806 and ISBN-10: 0452281806), written by authors
Edward Chancellor, was published by Plume in 2000.
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Description
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.
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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