Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Expanded Edition)

An expanded and updated edition of Edward Chancellor’s lively and authoritative study of speculation from early modern times to the present.

Sweeping, engaging, and perennially relevant, Devil Take the Hindmost traces the story of financial speculation back from ancient Rome to its revival in the modern world. Edward Chancellor takes a fine-tooth comb to the delirious days of tulipomania in 1630s Holland, “stockjobbing” in London’s Exchange Alley, and the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720—wh...