Devil Take the Hindmost A History of Financial Speculation

Name: Devil Take the Hindmost A History of Financial Speculation
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ISBN: 9780452281806

ISBN-10: 0452281806

ISBN-13: 9780452281806

Edition: 2000

Authors: Edward Chancellor

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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.00" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface: Devil Take the Hindmost



"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


Epilogue: The Case of the Rogue Economists


Notes


For Further Reference


Acknowledgments


Index