Devil Take the Hindmost
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Devil Take the Hindmost
| Full title | Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation |
|---|---|
| Author | Edward Chancellor |
| Published | 1999 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Recommended | 4 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Edward Chancellor’s history of speculative manias from the tulip trade forward, written to show how consistently the same structure recurs. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @WillManidis — recommended in the replies when he asked on X “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025.
- @tylercosgrove — on his list of 25 books he offered to send to Jared Kushner, October 2025.
- In Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide, 2016) — the archive of his monthly book-club recommendations, saved by Kyle in April 2020 — Full Reading List (Investor Field Guide).
- In Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s A Curriculum for the Modern Investor, saved by Kyle in April 2020 — A Curriculum for the Modern Investor (Patrick O’Shaughnessy).
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Capital Allocation
- Finance
- History
What links here
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