Infectious Greed How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets

Name: Infectious Greed How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets
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ISBN: 9780805075106

ISBN-10: 0805075100

ISBN-13: 9780805075106

Edition: Revised

Authors: Frank Partnoy

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The still-unfolding financial story is terrifying. One by one, major corporations such as Enron, Global Crossing, and WorldCom are imploding all around us, prey to a greed-driven culture and dubious or illegal corporate finance and accounting. We have reached a perilous crossroads. In a compelling and disturbing narrative, Frank Partnoy brings to bear all of his skills and experience as a securities attorney, financial analyst, and law professor to tell the story of the rise of the trading instruments and corporate financial structures that now imperil the economic health of the country. Starting in the mid-1980s, he documents how each new level of financial risk and complexity obscured the…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction


Patient Zero


Monkeys on Their Backs


Wheat First Securities


Unreconciled Balances


A New Breed of Speculator


Morals of the Marketplace


Messages Received


The Domino Effect


The Last One to the Party


The World's Greatest Company


Hot Potato


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index