The King, the Crook, and the Gambler: The True Story of the South Sea Bubble and the Greatest Financial Scandal in History
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“Balen reminds us that the murky tale of the first bubble stands as a cautionary tale for our time.” --Lisa Jardine, London Times The greatest financial scandal in history was not the collapse of Enron or WorldCom, not a piece of insider trading from the 1980s, not a hedge fund leveraged to a trillion dollars or a crooked offshore account. It was bigger than all of them combined. So vast, in fact, that it threatened to bankrupt an...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0007161786
ISBN13:9780007161782
Release Date:June 2004
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.0"
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