The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
- ISBN-10
- 0786741546
- ISBN-13
- 9780786741540
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-03-09
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Author
- Frank Partnoy
Description
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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