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100			_aChancellor, Edward
245			_aDevil take the hindmost : _ba history of financial speculation _cby Edward Chancellor
260			_bPenguin, _aNew York : _c©2000
300			_axiv, 386 p. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 351-370) and index.
505			_t1. "This bubble world": the origins of financial speculation _t2. Stockjobbing in 'Change Alley: the projecting age of the 1690s _t3. "The never-to-be-forgot or forgiven South-Sea Scheme" _t4. Fool's gold: the emerging markets of the 1820s _t5. "A ready communication": the railway mania of 1845 _t6. "Befooled, bewitched and bedeviled": speculation in the gilded age _t7. The end of a new era: the crash of 1929 and its aftermath _t8. Cowboy capitalism: from Bretton Woods to Michael Milken _t9. Kamikaze capitalism: the Japanese bubble economy of the 1980s.
520			_aDevil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the seventeenth century to the present day. 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 "stockjobbing" in London's Exchange Alley (where wine sold at auction by an "inch of a candle"), to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1719, which prompted investor Sir Isaac Newton to comment, "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." Here are brokers underwriting risks that included highway robbery and the "assurance of female chastity;" 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.
650			_aFinance -- History.
650			_aSpeculation -- History.
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