Devil take the hindmost : a history of financial speculation /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, Giroux,
1999.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "This bubble world": the origins of financial speculation
- Stockjobbing in 'Change Alley: the projecting age of the 1690s
- "The never-to-be-forgot or forgiven South-Sea Scheme"
- Fool's gold: the emerging markets of the 1820s
- "A ready communication: the railway mania of 1845
- "Befooled, bewitched and bedeviled": speculation in the gilded age
- The end of a new era: the crash of 1929 and its aftermath
- Cowboy capitalism: from Bretton Woods to Michael Milken
- Kamikaze capitalism: the Japanese bubble economy of the 1980s.