Bibliograph

A nation of deadbeats, an uncommon history of America's financial disasters, Scott Reynolds Nelson

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A nation of deadbeats, an uncommon history of America's financial disasters, Scott Reynolds Nelson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A nation of deadbeats

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

809667285

Responsibility statement

Scott Reynolds Nelson

Sub title

an uncommon history of America's financial disasters

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

Table Of 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 -- Here be dragons

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