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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived
"In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history. Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP. In an era when kings had unlimited power, Fugger dared to stare down heads of state and ask them to pay back their loans--with interest. It was this coolness and self-assurance, along with his inexhaustible ambition, that made him not only the richest man ever, but a force of history as well. Before Fugger came along it was illegal under church law to charge interest on loans, but he got the Pope to change that. He also helped trigger the Reformation and likely funded Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe. His creation of a news service gave him an information edge over his rivals and customers and earned Fugger a footnote in the history of journalism. And he took Austria’s Habsburg family from being second-tier sovereigns to rulers of the first empire where the sun never set."--Provided by publisher.
American Rascal
"This is a spry biography of Gilded Age financier Jay Gould, who pioneered the business model of the Wall Street shark"--
Summary of Greg Steinmetz's American Rascal
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Greg Steinmetz's American Rascal In American Rascal (2022), journalist and financial analyst Greg Steinmetz explores the life of Jay Gould, a colorful nineteenth-century financier whose career triggered the first-ever reforms on Wall Street. Steinmetz details his complex career both on Wall Street and in railroads, as well as the contradiction between his life as a good family man and his financial scheming. Gould’s exploitation of the financial system and his manipulation of the stock market showed how flawed capitalism was, and how deeply those flaws affected the American economy.
Summary of Greg Steinmetz's American Rascal
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Jay Gould was 17 when he announced to his friend Abel Crosby that he was going to be rich. He was right. #2 Jay Gould was a rich kid who announced to his friend Abel Crosby that he was going to be rich. He was right. #3 Jay Gould was a rich kid who announced to his friend Abel Crosby that he was going to be rich. He was right. #4 Jay Gould was a rich kid who announced to his friend Abel Crosby that he was going to be rich. He was right. He took the time to finish another piece of work. He was on the road only a few days when pneumonia struck. He recovered, but his sister Polly died of tuberculosis. He resolved to stay at home until he was back at full strength. He didn’t go to college, but he taught himself from books.
The Fuggers of Augsburg
As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant family of the period, the Medici of Florence, however, no English-language work on them has been available until now. The Fuggers of Augsburg offers a concise and engaging overview that builds on the latest scholarly literature and the author’s own work on sixteenth-century merchant capitalism. Mark Häberlein traces the history of the family from the weaver Hans Fugger’s immigration to the imperial city of Augsburg in 1367 to the end of the Thirty Years’ War in 1648. Because the Fuggers’ extensive business activities involve...
O Homem Mais Rico de Todos os Tempos
Nos dias em que Colombo navegava os oceanos e Da Vinci pintava a Mona Lisa, o banqueiro alemão Jacob Fugger se tornava o homem mais rico da história. Fugger viveu na Alemanha na virada do século XVI, neto de um camponês. Quando de sua morte, sua fortuna chegava perto de 2% do PIB Europeu. Em uma era onde reis tinham poder ilimitado, Fugger ousou encarar os chefes de Estado e cobrar-lhes suas dívidas—com juros. Foi com essa frieza, autoconfiança e ambição sem limites que se tornou não apenas o homem mais rico até então, mas também um marco na história. Antes da aparição de Fugger era ilegal, segundo as leis da igreja, a cobrança de juros sobre empréstimos, mas ele conseguiu...
Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime
In a thorough reappraisal of the white-collar and corporate crime scene, this Second Edition builds on the first edition to complete the criminal narrative in an outstanding reference resource.
Terror to the Wicked
A little-known moment in colonial history that changed the course of America’s future. A riveting account of a brutal killing, an all-out manhunt, and the first murder trial in America, set against the backdrop of the Pequot War (between the Pequot tribe and the colonists of Massachusetts Bay) that ended this two-year war and brought about a peace that allowed the colonies to become a nation. The year: 1638. The setting: Providence, near Plymouth Colony. A young Nipmuc tribesman returning home from trading beaver pelts is fatally stabbed in a robbery in the woods near Plymouth Colony by a vicious white runaway indentured servant. The tribesman, fighting for his life, is able with his final...
State Formations
Uses modernist and postmodernist theoretical perspectives to examine the formation and reformation of states throughout history and around the globe.
American Rascal
A gripping, “rollicking” (John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood) biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuckled tactics made him richer than Rockefeller and led Wall Street to institute its first financial reforms. Had Jay Gould put his name on a university or concert hall, he would undoubtedly have been a household name today. The son of a poor farmer whose early life was marked by tragedy, Gould saw money as the means to give his family a better life…even if, to do so, he had to pull a fast one on everyone else. After entering Wall Street at the age of twenty-four, he quickly became notorious...
