The Match King Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals

by Partnoy, Frank

• ISBN13: 9781586488123
• ISBN10: 1586488120
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-09
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

Summary

Partnoy writes an all-too prescient parable of how unregulated markets, greed, and unchecked ambition can wreak havoc on an economic system.

Author Biography

Frank Partnoy is the author of F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street and Infectious 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Coming to America	p. 1
Getting to Lee Higg	p. 15
The Speech	p. 29
Trouble at Home	p. 46
The Green Eye Shade	p. 59
Poland First	p. 70
Le Boom	p. 91
The Match Palace	p. 112
A Weekend in Germany	p. 135
One Last Chance	p. 156
Coming Back to America	p. 179
Death in the Air	p. 193
Greatness?	p. 201
Coda	p. 218
A Note on Sources and Acknowledgements	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 230
Notes	p. 236
Index	p. 263
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