Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
Edward Chancellor
- ISBN-13
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 1999
- Pages
- 386
- Format
- Hardcover, new
History of financial speculation by Edward Chancellor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). Traces speculative manias from Dutch tulipomania and the South Sea Bubble to Japan's Bubble Economy. Hardcover, 386 pages.
About this book
Devil Take the Hindmost is Edward Chancellor’s history of financial speculation from early modern times to the 1990s, focused on the world’s leading stock markets. This first edition was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1999 as a 386-page hardcover.
The story starts with tulipomania in seventeenth-century Holland and moves to Britain’s South Sea Bubble and Railway Mania. Chapters on the United States cover the Gilded Age, the Roaring Twenties and the revival of speculation since the early 1970s, followed by Japan’s Bubble Economy of the 1980s. Chancellor argues that speculative behavior is at odds with the orthodox theory of efficient markets.
Product details
Business & Careers › Money & Investing
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
|---|---|
| Published | 1999 |
| Author | Edward Chancellor |
| Format | Hardcover, 386 pages |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-374-13858-5 |
| ISBN-10 | 0374138583 |
| Size | 6.5 × 9.5 × 1.3 in · 1.5 lb |
| Condition | New |
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