TY - BOOK AU - Chancellor, Edward TI - Devil take the hindmost: a history of financial speculation reprint SN - 9780452281806 U1 - 332.64509 CHA PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Plum Books KW - Speculation KW - Speculation -- History KW - Stock exchanges -- History N1 - Suggested by Prof. Diptiranjan Mahapatra; United States Investment banks: Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb (BNB/​PRECIS); This Bubble World": The Origins of Financial Speculation; 41643.6678356481 N2 - Many modern economists hold that speculation is a benign economic activity, that it is always rational in motivation and rarely adverse in its effects. The struggles of the United States after the Crash of 1929 and of Japan in the 1990s suggest otherwise ER -