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

by Frank Partnoy

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

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About the Author

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:

9781586488123

Author:

Partnoy, Frank

Publisher:

PublicAffairs

Subject:

Finance

Subject:

Economic History

Subject:

General

Subject:

Business

Subject:

Biography/Business

Edition Description:

Trade Paper

Publication Date:

20100331

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Language:

English

Illustrations:

none

Pages:

288

Dimensions:

8.25 x 5.5 in 10 oz

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