Ten Years of Wall Street
B. F. Winkelman
1932
First Edition
A good to very good copy with rubbing and wear along the spine and to the covers. There's offsetting to the endpapers, a stain on the top edge of the text block and the previous owners name inside the front cover.
Tight hinges and lightly toned clean pages.
The stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression did not occur in a vacuum. Their roots lie in economic events that occurred over the previous ten years.
This book performs a financial autopsy on the "speculative decade" from 1919 to 1929, exploring the ruinous aftermath of World War One, in which war debts were contested and battles over reparations set the stage for a difficult international monetary situation, as well as the natural waxing and waning of economic cycles and the processes and procedures of the stock exchanges that contributed to disaster.
Written by a lawyer and emphasizing a legal perspective on the workings of a complex economy, this classic work of high finance offers a unique panorama on an important era of American history that is often overlooked.
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