The Edward Chancellor family were Scottish gentry who owned land at Quothquan since 1432.
10 Facts About Edward Chancellor
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Edward Chancellor graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with first class honors in Modern History, and later from St Antony's College, Oxford with a Masters of Philosophy in Modern History.
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In 1999, Edward Chancellor published Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, which made the long-list of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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In 2022, William J Bernstein said of the book, "More than 20 years ago, Edward Chancellor's Devil Take the Hindmost supplied readers with one of the most engaging and incisive descriptions of financial manias ever written".
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Bernstein added, "Besides being a first-rate economic historian, Edward Chancellor is a master wordsmith; almost unique among serious finance books".
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The book came from a 2005 report Edward Chancellor wrote for British hedge fund manager Crispin Odey on the growing housing and credit bubble.
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Edward Chancellor has contributed opinion pieces to other financial publications, including the Wall Street Journal, MoneyWeek, the New York Review of Books, and the Financial Times.
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In 2008, Edward Chancellor was announced as the winner of the 2007 George Polk Award in Financial Reporting for his 2007 article Ponzi Nation that he wrote for Institutional Investor.
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Edward Chancellor was the first-ever writer for Institutional Investor to win a George Polk Award.
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Edward Chancellor edited two anthologies of investment reports from Marathon Asset Management :.