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Devil take the hindmost : a history of financial speculation
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- Summary
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Examines stock market speculation since the seventeenth century, discussing the range of motivations of investors and the effects on economies throughout history.
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- Creator
- Edward Chancellor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Plume, 2000
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 386 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0452281806, 9780452281806
- OCLC
- ocm44448859
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-370) and index.
- "This bubble world": the origins of financial speculation -- Stockjobbing in 'Change Alley: the projecting age of the 1690s -- "The never-to-be-forgot or forgiven South-Sea Scheme" -- Fool's gold: the emerging markets of the 1820s -- "A ready communication": the railway mania of 1845 -- "Befooled, bewitched and bedeviled": speculation in the gilded age -- The end of a new era: the crash of 1929 and its aftermath -- Cowboy capitalism: from Bretton Woods to Michael Milken -- Kamikaze capitalism: the Japanese bubble economy of the 1980s