<b>A lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day.</b><br /><br /><i>Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed--and not changed--over the last five hundred years? </i><br /><br />In <i>Devil Take the Hindmost</i>, 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
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