Edward Chancellor is the author of Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation which has been translated into many languages and was a New York Times Book of the Year. After reading history at Cambridge and Oxford, he worked for Lazard Brothers and until 2014 he was a senior member of the asset allocation team at GMO. He is currently a columnist for Reuters Breakingviews and has contributed to the Wall Street Journal , the Financial Times, MoneyWeek and the New York Review of Books . In 2008, he received the George Polk Award for financial reporting for his article "Ponzi Nation" in Institutional Investor .