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A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America’s Financial Disasters

byScott Reynolds Nelson

It is also a story of dramatic financial panics that defined the nation, created its political parties, and forced tens of thousands to escape their creditors to new towns in Texas, Florida, and California. Drawing on economic evidence, institutional analysis, and historical examples, the narrative gives A Nation of Deadbeats a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the uncommon history of america’s financial disasters becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within business & economics and history.

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Publication date

2013

Format

Print edition

Pages

368

ISBN

9780307474322