{"product_id":"9781586488123","title":"The Match King : Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy","description":"At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish ?migr? 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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305166975349,"sku":"9781586488123","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781586488123.jpg?v=1762796946","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781586488123","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}