# The Match King

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- Authors: [Frank Partnoy](https://www.bookquiver.com/frank-partnoy)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-03-09

## Description

At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after his suicide in 1932, it became clear that Kreuger was not all he seemed: evidence surfaced of fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products, many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today's markets. In this gripping financial biography, Frank Partnoy recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

## Editions

### The Match King

- Publisher: publicaffairs
- ISBN: 978-15-8648-812-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-03-09
- Language: en_GB