Frank Partnoy's 2009 biography of Ivar Kreuger — tracing his rise from Swedish match factory to global monopolist to the world's most sophisticated fraudster — and his role in inspiring New Deal securities regulation.
Documents Kreuger's fraud as a case study in how sophistication and complexity can be used to obscure criminal behavior — the more complex the financial structure, the harder it is for auditors to see through it — making it a foundational text in financial fraud history.
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