Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance

Fraud, theft, and vice are endemic to Western capitalism according to this history of modern finance. This book shows how the rise of international finance in the 19th century has as many thieves, swinders, and frauds as it had noble gentlemen, in both cases no risk was too great if the reward seemed good enough. This book chronicles how the scoundrels and the more scrupulus played off each other and fought back and forth the create the financial systems we know today.

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