Kyle Harrison
to-read
Devil Take the Hindmost
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
- Author
- Edward Chancellor
- Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 400
- Recommended
- 4 times
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).