Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation Condition:Very Good They can 'con' everyone they

They can 'con' everyone they meet and do much damage - until those around them realise there is a pattern

Official Book Club Selection will make you laugh until you cry

First Published in 2003

including on-the-ground accounts of how Deng Xiaoping brought China roaring into the modern world

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation Condition:Very Good They can 'con' everyone theyA lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day. 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 changedand not changedover the last five hundred years? In Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles