Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cave, Andrew

Description

1. xi, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plates; 25 cm

Summary

1. After 10 years establishing his financial empire with alco-pops and beer in the lawless 'Wild East' of newly-capitalist Russia in the 1990s, Thor Bjorgolfsson moved on to merging, floating, spinning off and privatising businesses. On his 40th birthday, and worth 3.5 billion, he was sitting on top of the world. But when financial meltdown hit Iceland in October 2008, Landsbanki crashed and burned, taking Bjorgolfsson with it. Within 12 months he had lost 98.5% of his wealth - and was treated as a scapegoat in his native country.

Subject

1. Iceland
2. Businesspeople
3. Billionaires
4. Autobiographies
5. Bjorgolfsson, Thor
6. Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
7. Iceland > Economic conditions > 21st century
8. Businesspeople > Iceland > Biography
9. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
10. Biography
11. Financial crises > Iceland
12. Entrepreneurship
13. Billionaires > Iceland > Biography
14. 2008 - 2009

Genre/Form

1. Autobiographies.
2. Biography.

Call number

1. JBE 15-565

Note

1. Includes index.

Author

1. Bjorgolfsson, Thor, author.

Title

1. Billions to bust - and back : how I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way / Thor Bjorgolfsson with Andrew Cave.

Publisher

1. London : Profile Books, 2014.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Chronological term

1. 2008 - 2009

Added author

1. Cave, Andrew, author.

ISBN

1. 9781781253694 (hbk.)
2. 1781253692 (hbk.)
3. 9781782831167 (ebook)

Research call number

1. JBE 15-565