| Preface: Devil Take the Hindmost |
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``This Bubble World'': The Origins of Financial Speculation |
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3 | (27) |
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Stockjobbing in 'Change Alley: The Projecting Age of the 1690s |
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30 | (28) |
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``The Never-to-Be-Forgot or Forgiven South-Sea Scheme'' |
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58 | (38) |
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Fool's Gold: The Emerging Markets of the 1820s |
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96 | (26) |
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``A Ready Communication'': The Railway Mania of 1845 |
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122 | (30) |
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``Befooled, Bewitched and Bedeviled'': Speculation in the Gilded Age |
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152 | (39) |
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The End of a New Era: The Crash of 1929 and Its Aftermath |
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191 | (42) |
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Cowboy Capitalism: From Bretton Woods to Michael Milken |
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233 | (50) |
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Kamikaze Capitalism: The Japanese Bubble Economy of the 1980s |
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283 | (45) |
| Epilogue: The Case of the Rogue Economicsts |
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328 | (23) |
| Notes |
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351 | (16) |
| For Further Reference |
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367 | (4) |
| Acknowledgments |
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371 | (2) |
| Index |
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