The King, the Crook, and the Gambler: The True Story of the South Sea Bubble and the Greatest Financial Scandal in History

by Malcolm Balen

Book Overview

“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

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• 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"