3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Greek-Argentine shipping magnate who built one of the world's largest shipping fleets — through oil tankers, whale processing ships, and a shipping empire that leveraged the post-war oil boom — while becoming one of the most glamorous and visible capitalists of the 20th century.
American shipping magnate and real estate investor who built one of the world's largest private fortunes — through a pioneering technique of using shipbuilding contracts as collateral to finance new ships — and who was the richest person in America in the 1970s before his Amazon jungle venture consumed most of his fortune.
Jerry Shields's 1982 biography of Daniel Ludwig — the most complete account of the secretive shipping magnate who was once the richest person in America — tracing his rise from Michigan farm boy to global shipping empire builder.