Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

摘要: This is a challenging history of the role financial speculation from early modern times to end 20th century. Focusing on as it developed in world's leading stock markets, story starts with tulipomania 17th-century Holland, then moves Britain accounts famous speculative manias (the South Sea Bubble, Railway mania) and America chapters roaring twenties, junk bond revolution 1980s finally bubble economy Japan 1980s.