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A nation of deadbeats : an uncommon history of America's financial disasters
- Title
- A nation of deadbeats : an uncommon history of America's financial disasters / Scott Reynolds Nelson.
- Author
- Nelson, Scott Reynolds.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HB3743 .N45 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 330 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- A history of financial crashes in the United States offers concise explanations of little-understood principles about consumer debt that were at the core of each recession, recounting lending practices and schemes that triggered large-scale crashes and controversies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-319) and index.
- Contents
- Duer's disgrace -- A botanizing excursion -- Monkey jackets, the uncorked Mississippi, and the birth of caterpillar banks -- The second bank, the monkey jacket war, and Tenskwatawa's revenge -- The politics of panic, the economics of rags -- Leviathan -- Of swamps and calculus -- Ceres Americana -- A storm of wheat -- Crosses of gold -- Who put the roar in the Roaring Twenties? -- Conclusions, conclusions.
- ISBN
- 9780307272690
- 0307272699
- LCCN
- 2012025264
- 99950429131
- OCLC
- 769424535
- ocn769424535
- SCSB-5657374
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries