The Match King by Frank Partnoy
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781586488123 |
| ISBN 10 | 1586488120 |
| Title | The Match King |
| Author | Frank Partnoy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Year published | 2010-03-09 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009 |
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