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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
Devil Take the Hindmost A History of Financial Speculation
Author: Edward Chancellor
A lively & original history of stock market speculation from the 17th cent. to 1998. Traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome & chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland, to "stockjobbing" in London's Exchange Alley, to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720. Here are brokers unde...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780756757465
ISBN-10: 0756757460
Publication Date: 1996
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Publisher: Diane Pub.
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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