Bruce E Baker: 1 book
The Cotton Kings
Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption,...
