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Devil Take The Hindmost: A History Of Financial Speculation,New Glencoe/ His EruditionA Lively And Authoritative Look At Speculation From Early Modern Times To The Present. Focusing On Speculation As It Developed In The Worlds Leading Stock Markets, Edward Chancellors Story Starts With The Tulipomania In Seventeenthcentury Holland, Then Moves To Britain With Accounts Of Speculative Manias Such As The South Sea Bubble And The Railway Mania. From The Midnineteenth Century, The Narrative Turns To The United States, With Chapters On The