Devil Take the Hindmost A History of Financial Speculation

"Chancellor has written a lively but scholarly account of the financial booms and panics of the modern world, starting with the tulipomania in the Netherlands in the 1630s and ending with last year's rescue of Long-Term Capital Management, with its team of Nobel Prize winners and Wall Street hotshots. The stories of human credulity and chicanery may be somewhat familiar (though Chancellor adds many which are new to me), but they give great pleasure even on repetition."Chancellor, Edward is the author of 'Devil Take the Hindmost A History of Financial Speculation', published 2000 under ISBN 9780452281806 and ISBN 0452281806.