Devil Take the Hindmost (pb) - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330484095 ISBN 13 : 9780330484091

Editeur : Pan Books, 2000

Synopsis

This is a history of financial speculation. From the 17th-century the beginning of the 21st century, Edward Chancellor takes the reader through accounts of the tulipomania of Holland - when tulip bulbs changed hands for the price of houses - through well-known British speculative manias, such as the South Sea Bubble and Railway Mania of Victorian times, and concludes that contemporary speculative mania is remarkably similar. This is a comprehensive book on the subject which should be of interest to investors, economists and anyone who wishes to acquire an understanding of the modern economic system, as well as mainstream historians.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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? Edward Chancellor examines the nature of speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the 1630s to today's Internet stock craze. A contributing writer to The Financial Times and The Economist, looks at both the psychological and economic forces that drive people to "bet" their money in markets; how markets are made, unmade, and manipulated; and who wins when speculation runs rampant. Drawing colorfully on the words of such speculators as Sir Isaac Newton, Daniel Defoe, Ivan Boesky, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Devil Take the Hindmost is part history, part social science, and purely illuminating: an erudite and hugely entertaining book that is more timely today than ever before.

Revue de presse

“The subtle ways in which individual investors become drawn into crowd behavior is a much studied phenomenon, covered brilliantly... in the book Devil Take the Hindmost.”—The Daily Telegraph (London)
 
“The South Sea Company is one of the great bubble and crash stories. Many books have referred to it. One of the finest is Devil Take the Hindmost.”—Debashis Basu, Money Life
 
“Excellent.”—City A.M.
 
“[An] essential history of financial manias.”—The Observer
 
“A lively history of speculative manias and bubbles by a British banker turned writer.”—Susan Adams, Forbes

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pan Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330484095
• ISBN 13: 9780330484091
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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