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Devil takes the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor
Category: History
Devil Take the Hindmost is a lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the seventeenth century to the present day. Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the modern world: from the tulip scandal o ...Show more
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest by Edward Chancellor
Category: Business
Winner of the 2023 Hayek Book PrizeLonglisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award A comprehensive and profoundly relevant history of interest from one of the world's leading financial writers, The Price of Time explains our current global financial position and how we got here. ...Show more
The Price of Time - The Real Story of Interest by Edward Chancellor
Category: History
The first book of the next crisis. All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest coordinates these activities. The story of capitalism is thus the story of interest: the price that individuals, companies and nations pay to borrow money. In The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor ...Show more
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest by Edward Chancellor
Category: Business
Capitalism and interest are inseparable, yet over the centuries whenever interest rates have collapsed and money was too easy, financial markets have become unstable. In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, interest rates have sunk lower than at any time in the five millennia since they we ...Show more
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