Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Chancellor, Edward
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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.
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- Ambis Enterprises LLC (US)
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- Title
- Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
- Author
- Chancellor, Edward
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 19
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0452281806
- ISBN 13
- 9780452281806
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- June 5, 2000
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