Devil take the hindmost: a history of financial speculation

"This bubble world": the origins of financial speculation

Stockjobbing in 'Change Alley: the projecting age of the 1690s

"The never-to-be-forgot or forgiven South-Sea Scheme"

Fool's gold: the emerging markets of the 1820s

"A ready communication": the railway mania of 1845

"Befooled, bewitched and bedeviled": speculation in the Gilded Age

The end of a new era: the crash of 1929 and its aftermath

Cowboy capitalism: from Bretton Woods to Michael Milken

Kamikaze capitalism: the Japanese bubble economy of the 1980s.