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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor Very Good Pre-owned condition Softcover The book traces the history of financial speculation from ancient Rome to the modern world. It covers various historical events like the tulip scandal of the 1630s, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, the crash of 1929, and the Japanese bubble economy. Chancellor examines both the psychological and economic forces that drive people to speculate in markets. The work has been described as a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation.