Edward Chancellor

Devil Take the Hindmost

A History of Financial Speculation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: GB / Macmillan Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780333648247
• Artikelnr.: 67729859

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Devil Take the Hindmost
1. "This Bubble World": The Origins of Financial Speculation
2. Stockjobbing in 'Change Alley: The Projecting Age of the 1690s
3. "The Never-to-Be-Forgot or Forgiven South-Sea Scheme"
4. Fool's Gold: The Emerging Markets of the 1820s
5. "A Ready Communication": The Railway Mania of 1845
6. "Befooled, Bewitched and Bedeviled": Speculation in the Gilded Age
7. The End of a New Era: The Crash of 1929 and Its Aftermath
8. Cowboy Capitalism: From Bretton Woods to Michael Milken
9. Kamikaze Capitalism: The Japanese Bubble Economy of the 1980s
Epilogue: The Case of the Rogue Economists
Notes
For Further Reference
Acknowledgments
Index