Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way Jan Arnoldus Schouten and Mountain Men of the

and Mountain Men of the Upper Missouri focuses on eighteen men who represented the American Fur Company and its successors in the Upper Missouri trade

Nominated for the Nobel Prize

He didn't make it okay

as the author powerfully demonstrates in these pages

and Great Britain for his own political gain

Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way Jan Arnoldus Schouten and Mountain Men of theThe 1980s witnessed a lemming like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation of credit practices the subject of James Grant's brilliant, clear eyed history of American finance. Two long running trends converged in the 1980s to