Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

I am a fan of Edward Chancellor's books and this is an excellent story laid low by appalling formatting for Kindle. The warning came early as the contents pages were just very small images of the book pages as if poorly photographed. Normal text then resumes but typographical errors persist throughout, making whole sentences unintelligible in some cases. More frustratingly, the numerous footnotes are not positioned at the foot of pages where they should be but appear anywhere in the text, breaking up the flow of the text and requiring a sometimes difficult search to find where the main story resumes. Similarly, book and chapter titles, and page numbers, intended for the bottom of pages, appear anywhere in the string of text, further encumbering reading. These problems persisted despite trying three different Kindle devices (a Kindle reader and the Kindle app on a tablet and on a PC with a range of text sizes). It seems as though the book was scanned by some text recognition software and no effort was made to proof read the resulting string of text. Very poor presentation indeed at the premium price for a Kindle book. So 5-stars for the story but (charitably) 1-star for presentation.

Bought as a gift.

Loved this book. Excellent overview on the history of money & credit.If you only read one book on financial speculation, thisshould be it. Peter Rabson.

Edward Chancellor investigates the stock market from an academic perspective. Shockingly Chancellor shows time after time humans falling prey to the same greed and irrationality. The question is when will the next financial earthquake happen?

Excellent Book. If we learn one thing from history, it is that we don't learn from history. Anyone interested in the current financial crisis or looking to invest should read this book first. Reads like a novel. Recommended

Must read for anyone interested in investment, market psychology, financial history - can't recommend it enough.

Worth reading if you're thinking about it.

Excellent book.