Inventing Money
by Nicholas Dunbar · first published 1999
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"Inventing Money is in equal measure the story of the strategy and people behind the collapse of one of the world's largest hedge funds, an explanation of how the modern world of finance functions and a walk through the historical development of this multi-billion dollar industrty."--Jacket.
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