Great Financial Scandals
The Schemers and Scams Behind the World's Greatest Financial Disasters
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In this fascinating look at the low side of high finance, Sam Jaffa, author of the best-selling Maxwell Stories, uncovers the wheeler-dealers, the schemers and the scoundrels behind the greatest financial scares throughout history. What were the forces that drove Robert Maxwell, said to be the tenth richest person in Britain when his empire collapsed, to purloin vast sums from his company pension funds? What method did Swedish "Match King' Ivar Kreuger use to build up his real and bogus companies? Are human greed, vanity and a craving for power the only motivating factors in these cases? From the world's first notable financial debacle, the South Sea Bubble scandal of the seventeenth century, through to the Boesky, Guniness, BCCI, Barings and New Era scandals of more recent times, Sam Jaffe weaves a rich and startling web of the deceitful depths to which men and woman will sink in search of fast -- and big -- bucks.
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- Titel
- Great Financial Scandals
- Untertitel
- The Schemers and Scams Behind the World's Greatest Financial Disasters
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Sam Jaffa
- Verlag
- Robson Books Limited
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 318
- ISBN10
- 1861051603
- ISBN13
- 9781861051608
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Weltliteratur, Wahre Geschichten, Handel, Wirtschaft & Management, Ökonomie, True Crime
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- In this fascinating look at the low side of high finance, Sam Jaffa, author of the best-selling Maxwell Stories, uncovers the wheeler-dealers, the schemers and the scoundrels behind the greatest financial scares throughout history. What were the forces that drove Robert Maxwell, said to be the tenth richest person in Britain when his empire collapsed, to purloin vast sums from his company pension funds? What method did Swedish "Match King' Ivar Kreuger use to build up his real and bogus companies? Are human greed, vanity and a craving for power the only motivating factors in these cases? From the world's first notable financial debacle, the South Sea Bubble scandal of the seventeenth century, through to the Boesky, Guniness, BCCI, Barings and New Era scandals of more recent times, Sam Jaffe weaves a rich and startling web of the deceitful depths to which men and woman will sink in search of fast -- and big -- bucks.