Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation Lynsay Sands Avery Grambs has a plan

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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation Lynsay Sands Avery Grambs has a planA 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