Devil Take the Hindmost A History of Financial Speculation

Praise for Devil Take the Hindmost

An admirably researched and very well written account of speculative insanity from the earliest times to, let no one doubt, the present. Anyone contemplating a stock market venture and certainly anyone now involved should read this book. John Kenneth Galbraith

The greatest hits of financial silliness recounted coherently and...gracefully...Chancellor does a fine job of capturing the atmosphere of the times. Forbes magazine

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

The subtle ways in which individual investors become drawn into crowd behavior is a much studied phenomenon, covered brilliantly...in the book Devil Take the Hindmost. The Daily Telegraph (London)
 
The South Sea Company is one of the great bubble and crash stories. Many books have referred to it. One of the finest is Devil Take the Hindmost. Debashis Basu, Money Life
 
Excellent. City A.M.
 
[An] essential history of financial manias. The Observer