A compilation of excerpts from Proudhon's "Manuel du Spéculateur a la bourse" commissioned by Garnier Brothers and first published 1854.
"It was called The Stock exchange speculator's annual and consisted of a mass of statistical information, collected with the assistance of George Duchêne, on all the leading companies whose shares were offered for sale at the Bourse, garnished with an introduction, notes and 'final considerations' from Proudhon's own hand. Any genuine speculator who went to the Manual for a hot tip would be disappointed, for not only did the authors condemn speculation itself, but Proudhon also indulged in a lengthy analysis of the growth of the feudal structure in industry which was driving apart the bourgeois and the working class and acting inevitably to the detriment of the latter"
- Woodcock, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, p. 191
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