Books like Devil Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor

Michael Lewis explains how the 2008 financial crisis unfolded, focusing on subprime mortgages, CDOs, and the people who bet against the collapsing market.

Explores the origins and evolution of finance, revealing its role in human progress and economic history.

Robert D. Edwards’ book presents the foundational principles of technical analysis for understanding stock market behavior.

Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. With this breakthrough study, leading economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff definitively prove them wrong. Covering sixty-six countries across five continents, This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises, and guides us through eight astonishing centuries of government defaults, banking panics, and inflationary spikes--from medieval currency debasements to today's subprime catastrophe. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis, provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established market nations. The authors draw important lessons from history to show us how much--or how little--we have learned. Using clear, sharp analysis and comprehensive data, Reinhart and Rogoff document that financial fallouts occur in clusters and strike with surprisingly consistent frequency, duration, and ferocity. They examine the patterns of currency crashes, high and hyperinflation, and government defaults on international and domestic debts--as well as the cycles in housing and equity prices, capital flows, unemployment, and government revenues around these crises. While countries do weather their financial storms, Reinhart and Rogoff prove that short memories make it all too easy for crises to recur. - Publisher.

"In this update of his 2000 bestseller, Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller returns to the topic that gained him international fame: market volatility. Shiller breaks new ground in this second edition by laying out in even clearer and starker terms the market excess that continue to destabilize the economy and disrupt our lives." "Building on the original edition, Shiller draws out the psychological origins of volatility in financial markets, this time folding real estate into his analysis. He broadens the evidence that investing in capital markets of all kinds in the modern free market is inherently unstable - subject to the profoundly human influences captured in Alan Greenspan's now-famous phrase, "irrational exuberance."" "The ultimate solution to this troubling condition, he maintains, would involve better-designed public institutions such as a revamped social security system, new forms of insurance to protect people's incomes and homes, and a broader array of investment options."--BOOK JACKET

Jim Rogers explains how savvy investors can tap China’s booming economy—from the growth of A‑shares, B‑shares and ADRs to opportunities in energy, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure.

A vampire‑phoenix, Ivan Drake, must decide whether to take the Book of All Spells from the witch Dez Merevech or spare her life, as a demon’s claim on his soul and a looming war between witches and vampires threaten the paranormal realm.

A clear introduction to the stock market, explaining how securities and bonds are traded, the role of risk in investing, and the fundamentals of saving and investing for young readers.

Evil - disturbing, inexplicable, deeply rooted - persists. Inching toward the millennium, we speak of the Devil once again: in tabloid accounts of cults, in popular novels, and even in scholarly theological works. We are back where we began 2,000 years ago: going to the Devil. Now, in this informed, lucid, and very readable biography, Peter Stanford introduces us to this figure of fascination. Tracing the idea back to the pre-Christian era with its many devils, he pauses to explore Judaism's approach, then moves on to concentrate on Christianity's contribution: the creation of the monster we know today. Stanford casts his net widely to include literature and the arts, folklore and psychology, history and theology, and he distills a wealth of complex information - from early Church teachings to medieval iconography, from witchcraft and satanism to satanic cults and modern-day exorcisms. The result is a lively, engaging account of an age-old enemy.

A insider’s account of why market crashes keep occurring and how well‑intentioned financial innovations can make risks worse, drawn from Rick Bookstaber’s experience managing risk at top Wall Street firms and hedge funds.