A nation of deadbeats
Subtitle: an uncommon history of America's financial disasters
By: by Scott Reynolds Nelson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Financial crises; Recessions; Depressions; Economic conditions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Duer's disgrace; title: A botanizing excursion; title: Monkey jackets, the uncorked Mississippi, and the birth of caterpillar banks; title: The second bank, the monkey jacket war, and Tenskwatawa's revenge; title: The politics of panic, the economics of rags; title: Leviathan; title: Of swamps and calculus; title: Ceres Americana; title: A storm of wheat; title: Crosses of gold; title: Who put the roar in the Roaring Twenties?; title: Conclusions, conclusions.