The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
Autor Frank Partnoyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2010
At
the
height
of
the
roaring
'20s,
Swedish
émigré
Ivar
Kreuger
made
a
fortune
raising
money
in
America
and
loaning
it
to
Europe
in
exchange
for
matchstick
monopolies.
His
enterprise
was
a
rare
success
story
throughout
the
Great
Depression.
Yet
after
his
suicide
in
1932,
it
became
clear
that
Kreuger
was
not
all
he
seemed:
evidence
surfaced
of
fudged
accounting
figures,
off-balance-sheet
accounting,
even
forgery.
He
created
a
raft
of
innovative
financial
products—
many
of
them
precursors
to
instruments
wreaking
havoc
in
today's
markets.
In
this
gripping
financial
biography,
Frank
Partnoy
recasts
the
life
story
of
a
remarkable
yet
forgotten
genius
in
ways
that
force
us
to
re-think
our
ideas
about
the
wisdom
of
crowds,
the
invisible
hand,
and
the
free
and
unfettered
market.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781586488123
ISBN-10: 1586488120
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1586488120
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: PublicAffairs
Colecția PublicAffairs
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Frank
Partnoyis
the
author
ofF.I.A.S.C.O.:
Blood
in
the
Water
on
Wall
StreetandInfectious
Greed:
How
Deceit
and
Greed
Corrupted
the
Financial
Markets.
A
graduate
of
Yale
Law
School,
he
is
the
George
E.
Barrett
Professor
of
Law
and
Finance
at
the
University
of
San
Diego.