Devil Take the Hindmost

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780452281806 Author(s): Edward Chancellor Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2000 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Pages: 400

Description: A lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day.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 changedâand not changedâover the last five hundred years? In Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland, to âstockjobbingâ in London's Exchange Alley, to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720, which prompted Sir Isaac Newton to comment, âI can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.âHere are brokers underwriting risks that included highway robbery and the âassurance of female chastityâ; credit notes and lottery tickets circulating as money; wise and unwise investors from Alexander Pope and Benjamin Disraeli to Ivan Boesky and Hillary Rodham Clinton.From the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, from the nineteenth century railway mania to the crash of 1929, from junk bonds and the Japanese bubble economy to the day-traders of the Information Era, Devil Take the Hindmost tells a fascinating story of human dreams and folly through the ages.

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