Author: Ralph Willard HidyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The House of Baring in American Trade and Finance
Author: Ralph Willard HidyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Investments, British
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The House of Baring in American Trade and Finance
Author: Ralph Willard HidyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674334625
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The House of Baring in American trade and finance
Author: Ralph Willard HidyThe House of Baring in American Trade and Finance
Author: Ralph Willard HidyBaring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance
Author: Peter E AustinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314700
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In 1995, the Baring Brothers collapsed over a weekend, brought down by the 'rogue trader' Nick Leeson. Utilizing British and American archives, this work charts Baring Brothers development from wool merchants to one of the most powerful global financial institutions. It also analyses the errors which led to its downfall.
Financing Anglo-American Trade
Author: Edwin J. PerkinsPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The House of Baring and American Trade, 1830-1842
Author: Ralph Willard HidyAll That Glitters
Author: John GapperPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101572752
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring, the oldest merchant bank in London, in 1995 and the ultimate rogue trader, Nick Leeson, who brought down the venerable institution with speculative investing. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his coauthor Nicholas Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed all the major players involved in the collapse of one of England's oldest banks. All That Glitters reveals the Faustian deal struck between the whizz-kid derivatives traders who seemed to be bringing in huge profits and the old guard who were happy to pocket them without asking too many questions. Gapper and Denton present a thrilling, in-depth account of Nick Leeson's motives and methods for hiding the unauthorized speculative trading as well as the final days of Barings and the last-ditch attempts by politicians and bankers to save the bank.
The House of Morgan
Author: Ron ChernowPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 9780802198136
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The National Book Award–winning history of American finance by the renowned biographer and author of Hamilton: “A tour de force” (New York Times Book Review). The House of Morgan is a panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan’s empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family’s private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved—a world that included Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Franklin Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, and Winston Churchill. A masterpiece of financial history—it was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century—The House of Morgan is a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.
The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860
Author: Jack Lawrence SchermerhornPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre–Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic’s capitalist economy.