Devil take the hindmost : a history of financial speculation / Edward Chancellor.
Publisher's description: 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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New York :
Plume,
2000.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "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.