A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
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分類: 图书,进口原版,Business & Investing(商业与投资),Economics(经济学),Economic History,
品牌: Scott Reynolds Nelson
基本信息出版社:Knopf (2012年9月4日)精装:352页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307272699条形码:9780307272690商品重量:730 gASIN:0307272699您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介A lively, comprehensive history of financial crashes in American history—and a concise explanation of the little-understood principles that caused them all.
Pundits will argue that the 2008 financial crisis was the first crash in American history driven by consumer debt. But in this spirited, highly engaging account, Scott Reynolds Nelson demonstrates that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation's history. From William Duer's attempts to profit off the country's post-Revolutionary War debt to an 1815 plan to sell English coats to Americans on credit, to the debt-fueled railroad expansion that precipitated the 1857 crash: in each case, the chain of banks, brokers, moneylenders, and insurance companies that separated borrowers and lenders made it impossible to distinguish good loans from bad. Bound up in this history are stories of national banks funded by smugglers, fistfights in Congress over the gold standard, America's early dependence on British bankers, and how presidential campaigns were forged in controversies over private debt. An irreverent, wholly accessible, eye-opening book.作者简介SCOTT REYNOLDS NELSON is the author ofSteel Drivin' Man,which won the National Award for Arts Writing, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Prize, the Merle Curti Prize for best book in U.S. history, and the Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction. His young adult book,Ain't Nothing But a Man(written with Marc Aronson) won seven national awards, including the Jane Addams Prize for best book on social justice.