<DIV>Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the psychology of investing changed--and not changed--over the last five hundred years? <b>Edward Chancellor</b> examines the nature of speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the 1630s to today's Internet stock craze. A contributing writer to <b>The Financial Times</b> and <b>The Economist</b>, looks at both the psychological and economic forces that drive people to "bet" their money in markets; how markets are made, unmade, and manipulated; and who wins when speculation runs rampant. Drawing colorfully on the words of such speculators as <b>Sir Isaac Newton, Daniel Defoe, Ivan Boesky</b>, and <b>Hillary Rodham Clinton</b>, <b>Devil Take the Hindmost</b> is part history, part social science, and purely illuminating: an erudite and hugely entertaining book that is more timely today than ever before. </div>