Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
- 13h 29m 50s
- Edward Chancellor
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- 2019
This audio book is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to the present day.
In this Audiobook
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Chapter 1. “This Bubble World”: The Origin of Financial Speculation
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Chapter 2. Stockjobbing in 'Change Alley: The Projecting Age of the 1960s
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Chapter 3. “The Never-to-Be-Forgot or Forgiven South-Sea Scheme”
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Chapter 4. Fool's Gold: The Emerging Markets of the 1820s
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Chapter 5. “A Ready Communication”: The Railway Mania of 1845
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Chapter 6. “Befooled, Bewitched and Bedeviled”: Speculation in the Glided Age
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Chapter 7. The End of a New Era: The Crash of 1929 and Its Aftermath
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Chapter 8: Cowboy Capitalism: From Bretton Woods to Michael Milken
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Chapter 9: Kamikaze Capitalism: The Japanese Bubble Economy of the 1980s
