The Match King - Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals (Paperback)

At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish emigre 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.

General

Imprint:	PublicAffairs,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	March 2010
Authors:	Frank Partnoy
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-58648-812-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > General Books > Money & Finance > General
LSN:	1-58648-812-0
Barcode:	9781586488123

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