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9780452281806

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

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    9780452281806

  • ISBN10:

    0452281806

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: Plume

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Summary

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? Edward Chancellor examines the nature of speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the 1630s to today's Internet stock craze. A contributing writer to The Financial Times and The Economist, looks at both the psychological and economic forces that drive people to "bet" their money in markets; how markets are made, unmade, and manipulated; and who wins when speculation runs rampant. Drawing colorfully on the words of such speculators as Sir Isaac Newton, Daniel Defoe, Ivan Boesky, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Devil Take the Hindmost is part history, part social science, and purely illuminating: an erudite and hugely entertaining book that is more timely today than ever before.

Author Biography

Edward Chancellor studied history at Cambridge and Oxford. In the early 1990s he worked for the investment bank Lazard Brothers. He is a freelance contributor to the Financial Times and The Economist.

Table of Contents

Preface: Devil Take the Hindmost ix
``This Bubble World'': The Origins of Financial Speculation
3(27)
Stockjobbing in 'Change Alley: The Projecting Age of the 1690s
30(28)
``The Never-to-Be-Forgot or Forgiven South-Sea Scheme''
58(38)
Fool's Gold: The Emerging Markets of the 1820s
96(26)
``A Ready Communication'': The Railway Mania of 1845
122(30)
``Befooled, Bewitched and Bedeviled'': Speculation in the Gilded Age
152(39)
The End of a New Era: The Crash of 1929 and Its Aftermath
191(42)
Cowboy Capitalism: From Bretton Woods to Michael Milken
233(50)
Kamikaze Capitalism: The Japanese Bubble Economy of the 1980s
283(45)
Epilogue: The Case of the Rogue Economicsts 328(23)
Notes 351(16)
For Further Reference 367(4)
Acknowledgments 371(2)
Index 373

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