Austria
Austria's contribution to investor literature is intellectual and historical rather than corporate: the Austrian School, and the 1931 Creditanstalt failure that turned a European banking problem into a global one. The Creditanstalt story is properly documented; there is still no useful book on modern Austrian business in English.
5 books · 2 people behind it
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- Lords of FinanceLiaquat Ahamed, 2009
- Golden FettersBarry Eichengreen, 1992
- The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931Aurel Schubert, 1991
The people behind it 2
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Academics 2
Books 5
Charles P. Kindleberger · 1973 · Classic account with Creditanstalt as the hinge of the crisis.
Barry Eichengreen · 1992 · How the gold standard turned a Vienna bank run into global contraction.
Liaquat Ahamed · 2009 · The Creditanstalt collapse and its transmission through the 1931 European banking crisis.
Aurel Schubert · 1991 · The definitive study of the bank failure that broke Central European finance.
Janek Wasserman · 2019 · History of the Vienna school as a network, including its financing and its export to the US.