Devil Take The Hindmost: Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed--and not changed--over the last five hundred years? Edward Chancellor examines the nature of speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the 1630s to today's Internet stock craze. A contributing writer to The Financial Times and The Economist, Chancellor looks at both the psychological and economic forces that drive people to "bet" their money in markets; how markets are made, unmade, and manipulated; and who wins when speculation runs rampant. Drawing colorfully on the words of such speculators as Sir Isaac Newton, Daniel Defoe, Ivan Boesky, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Devil Take the Hindmost is part history, part social science, and purely illuminating: an erudite and hugely entertaining book that is more timely today than ever before.

"Entertaining, useful, admirable scholarship . . . Chancellor seems to have read everything." --Adam Smith, The New York Times Book Review

"Anyone contemplating a stock market venture and certainly anyone now involved should read this book."--John Kenneth Gailbraith

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Starboard Broadside: The Economy and The Dems

To this end, combined with a thorough thrashing of the GOP for its devil-take-the-hindmost policies, shortly after Labor Day, the administration should present basic elements of a new economic program for the next two years. ...

Open Left:: Great comment on neoliberalism

They want what they want, and they are quite prepared to let the devil take the hindmost whether they are Republicans or Democrats. The left, oth, continues to support and pursue a disguised loyalty pledge of "more and better Democrats" ...

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Frankly, I find the capitalism-is-the-natural-order-let-the-devil-take-the-hindmost scheme not all that compelling. It's the same argument that we should lower workers' wages because the Chinese and Indians can make stuff cheaper. ...

Why Lessons From The First Great Depression Mean The Next Four ...

Login or register to post comments. by HonestJohn on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:10 #560430. that book was as dry as toast...I prefer Devil take the Hindmost: The History of Finacial Specualtion by Edward Chancellor ...

Big Banks, The Whipping Boys of the Financial Crisis, Go After ...

To make the muni guarantees good, and devil take the hindmost, so to speak, for the mortgages. Saying the mortgage pool guarantees are good is silly, but it could take a decade to actually see insolvency. So maybe the law comes down to ...

The Kochs: paying to keep America dumb | David Seaton's Blog

What is their role in "the devil take the hindmost"? Why are so many of the poor of America, white and black, socially conservative? Because without a welfare state, the only institutions that offer any comfort or protection are the ...

A response from Shermer « Why Evolution Is True

Given the damage PFI and privatisation has done to social support services in Britain he merely re-inforces the image of Libertarians as those who believe in “devil take the hindmost” ...

Daily Pundit » Golden Boy

Everyone bought that “Maestro” crap (including myself for a while, until the mid 90's when I read a little more about economic history - like Devil Take the Hindmost). Now it's caught up with the monetary debasement of the past and is a ...

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Going After the Little Guy and Ignoring the White Collar Criminals - The People's Voice (blog)


The People's Voice (blog)

Going After the Little Guy and Ignoring the White Collar Criminals
The People's Voice (blog)
... greedy governors and their respective pay-masters whose motto seems to be “get your goodies first and let the devil take the hindmost”. ...

Just How Smart Is Obama? - American Thinker


Just How Smart Is Obama?
American Thinker
What about his propensity to jump feet-first before thinking and let the devil take the hindmost? Like accusing the Cambridge, MA police of stupidity in the ...

Brasschaat - Women - Daily Peloton


Daily Peloton

Brasschaat - Women
Daily Peloton
The idea is a simple one, much like the track "Devil take the hindmost". Apart from the first lap every lap the last rider who crosses the line drops off ...

From “Bohunks" to Finns: Part 2 - Hometown Focus


From “Bohunks" to Finns: Part 2
Hometown Focus
So there comes the spirit of "grab what you can and the devil take the hindmost." The idea that labor is dignified, or intelligent, or that it should share ...

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When Investing, Keep it Simple - Benzinga


Benzinga

When Investing, Keep it Simple
Benzinga
... engineering reminds us of a quote from the great Benjamin Graham that we stumbled across when re-reading Edward Chancellor's Devil Take the Hindmost. ...

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This ConDem Government is using deficit reduction as cover to out-Thatcher Maggie - Mirror.co.uk


Mirror.co.uk

This ConDem Government is using deficit reduction as cover to out-Thatcher Maggie
Mirror.co.uk
This is an inequality-is-good, devil-take-the-hindmost, walk-by-on-the-other-side Government using deficit reduction as cover to out-Thatcher the Rusty Lady ...
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Crafting a Democratic economic message for November - Daily Kos (blog)


Crafting a Democratic economic message for November
Daily Kos (blog)
To this end, combined with a thorough thrashing of the GOP for its devil-take-the-hindmost policies, shortly after Labor Day, the administration should ...

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Robert Chesshyre: We were the lucky generation – and we got it wrong - Independent


Robert Chesshyre: We were the lucky generation – and we got it wrong
Independent
It was the devil take the hindmost. I went back to my former university to report on student employment prospects during the recession of the early 1990s. ...

South Africa: An Economy Stifled by Chaotic Contradictions - AllAfrica.com


South Africa: An Economy Stifled by Chaotic Contradictions
AllAfrica.com
The spirit of the new South Africa is everyone for himself and the devil take the hindmost. The public service unions are demanding an 8.6% pay increase, ...

Beyond Messaging: Obama's Path to Jump Starting The Economy Without Congress - In These Times


In These Times

Beyond Messaging: Obama's Path to Jump Starting The Economy Without Congress
In These Times
To this end, combined with a thorough thrashing of the GOP for its devil-take-the-hindmost policies, shortly after Labor Day, the administration should ...

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