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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

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Item specifics

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Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the book cover but the book is still ...
Release Year
1999
ISBN
9780374138585

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374138583
ISBN-13
9780374138585
eBay Product ID (ePID)
870147

Product Key Features

Book Title
Devil Take the Hindmost : a History of Financial Speculation
Number of Pages
386 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Investments & Securities / Stocks, Investments & Securities / General
Genre
Business & Economics
Author
Edward Chancellor
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
8.8 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-012668
Reviews
"Edward Chancellor has combined his considerable talents as historian and banker to produce a riveting account of financial bubbles, followed by busts, in Britain, the United States, and Japan . . . Here is a lagniappe for the banker, broker, investor, and idle Wall Street onlooker."--Charles P. Kindleberger, author of Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
332.6/3228/09
Synopsis
A lively and authoritative look at speculation from early modern times to the present. Focusing on speculation as it developed in the world's leading stock markets, Edward Chancellor's story starts with the tulipomania in seventeenth-century Holland, then moves to Britain with accounts of speculative manias such as the South Sea Bubble and the Railway Mania. From the mid-nineteenth century, the narrative turns to the United States, with chapters on the Gilded Age, the Roaring Twenties, and the revival of speculation since the early 1970s, then portrays the disastrous Bubble Economy of Japan in the 1980s. Chancellor shows that the impulses that have shaped speculative behavior are at odds with the orthodox theory of efficient markets. His comprehensive history is interspersed with trenchant commentary on speculation in the 1990s, including such current issues as emerging markets, Internet and foreign-currency speculation, rogue traders, the great U.S. bull market, and our current financial predicament.
LC Classification Number
HG6005.C48 1999

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