Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
(Libby/OverDrive eAudiobook)

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Author
Chancellor, Edward
Contributors
Chancellor, Edward Author
Patterson, Nigel Narrator
Published
Tantor Media, Inc , 2019.
Status
Available from Libby/OverDrive

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Devil 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.

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Format
eAudiobook
Edition
Unabridged
Street Date
02/26/2019
Language
English
ISBN
9781977311832
Subjects
Business
Nonfiction
Economics

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Chancellor, E., & Patterson, N. (2019). Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Unabridged). Tantor Media, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Chancellor, Edward and Nigel Patterson. 2019. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation. Tantor Media, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Chancellor, Edward and Nigel Patterson. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation Tantor Media, Inc, 2019.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Chancellor, E. and Patterson, N. (2019). Devil take the hindmost: a history of financial speculation. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Chancellor, Edward, and Nigel Patterson. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation Unabridged, Tantor Media, Inc, 2019.

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