Liberty Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 [amazonsearch]Devil Take The Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation[/amazonsearch] History of financial bubbles and speclation. Haven't read it yet, but I have it on hold at the library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Packer16 Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Probably one of the best accounts of early speculative bubbles (South Sea, Mississippi, canals, tulipmania, railroads) out there. Packer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rukawa Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 This book is the one that made me a value investor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
writser Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I read a similar book a while ago: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Old book, but a classic and very enjoyable. I found the chapter on the tulip mania to be the most interesting (probably because I am Dutch). Some epic stories about the madness: The increasing mania contributed several amusing, but unlikely, anecdotes that Mackay recounted, such as a sailor who mistook the valuable tulip bulb of a merchant for an onion and grabbed it to eat. The merchant and his family chased the sailor to find him "eating a breakfast whose cost might have regaled a whole ship's crew for a twelvemonth". The sailor was jailed for eating the bulb. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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