Infectious Greed

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781846682933
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infectious Greed written by Frank Partnoy and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2010 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003, Infectious Greed examined how our greed-driven culture led to the generation of massive profits, but also to unprecedented levels of risk, widespread deception, and high profile disasters like Enron and Worldcom. In the wake of the 2008-9 financial crisis, Partnoy's analysis of how major companies obscured the reality from shareholders by disguising risk and side-stepping regulations, is more pertinent than ever. Beginning in the mid-1980s with the introduction of the first proto-derivatives, Partnoy gives an intelligent and thorough account of the dangerous manipulations that have and continue to come to light.

Author : John R. Nofsinger
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0131406442
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infectious Greed written by John R. Nofsinger and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Infectious Greed, " the authors begin with an assessment of what really happened in the recent big business collapses. Next, they offer systematic solutions that align incentives to promote desirable actions. Their solutions build on what's best about capitalism, and can truly restore the investor confidence that is essential to the system's long-term success.

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : Times Books
ISBN 13 : 1466872705
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infectious Greed written by Frank Partnoy and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of F.I.A.S.C.O., a riveting chronicle of the rise of dangerous financial instruments and the growing crisis in American business One by one, major corporations such as Enron, Global Crossing, and Worldcom imploded all around us, prey to a greed-driven culture and dubious or illegal corporate finance and accounting. In a compelling and disturbing narrative, Frank Partnoy's Infectious Greed brings to bear all of his skills and experience as a securities attorney, financial analyst, law professor, and bestselling author to tell the story of the rise of the trading instruments and corporate financial structures that imperil the economic health of the country. Starting in the mid-1980s with the introduction of the first proto-derivatives, and taking us through such high-profile disasters as Barings Bank and Long Term Capital Management, Partnoy traces a seamless progression to today's dangerous manipulations. He documents how each new level of financial risk and complexity obscured the sickness of the company in question, and required ever more ingenious deceptions. It's an alarming story, but Partnoy offers a clear vision of how we can step back from the precipice.

Author : Jeff Madrick
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400075661
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Age of Greed written by Jeff Madrick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid history of the economics of greed told through the stories of those major figures primarily responsible. Age of Greed shows how the single-minded and selfish pursuit of immense personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States over the last forty years. Economic journalist Jeff Madrick tells this story through incisive profiles of the individuals responsible for this dramatic shift in our country’s fortunes, from the architects of the free-market economic philosophy (such as Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan) to the politicians and businessmen (including Nixon, Reagan, Boesky, and Soros) who put it into practice. Their stories detail how a movement initially conceived as a moral battle for freedom instead brought about some of our nation's most pressing economic problems, including the intense economic inequity and instability America suffers from today. This is an indispensible guide to understanding the 1 percent.

Author : John Nofsinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756795351
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infectious Greed written by John Nofsinger and published by . This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial scandals have led to a fundamental crisis in the Amer. corp. system: investors believe they have been betrayed by the managers, boards, accountants, & invest. advisors they once trusted. The fundamental challenge is to restore confidence, but finger-pointing & tougher laws simply won't be enough. This book begins with an assessment of what really happened: how exec. compensation systems have led to unethical & greedy behavior, & why monitoring systems & regulators failed. Identifies powerful reforms that realign incentives to actively promote integrity & discourage malfeasance. Offers the first real prescription for restoring investor confidence in both the short- & long-term -- & for getting the U.S. economic system back on track. Illus.

Author : Frank Partnoy
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786741546
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Match King written by Frank Partnoy and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the roaring '20s, Swedish 'migr' Ivar Kreuger made a fortune raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great Depression. Yet after Kreuger's suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures, off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative financial products -- many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc in today's markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went bankrupt. Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS's "60 Minutes," recasts the life story of a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered market.

Author : Scott B. MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135149144X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Separating Fools from Their Money written by Scott B. MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? (Answer: Both became public scapegoats for an outrageous era of greed and excess.) What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? (Answer: Tough call, but either Michael Milken's Predators Ball in 1985, or Dennis Kozlowski's Sardinian birthday bash in 2001, with its vodka-spouting sculpture.) Which U.S. war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street? (Answer: Ulysses S. Grant, but it's a long story.)These questions and more are discussed in Scott MacDonald and Jane Hughes' Separating Fools from Their Money. The authors trace the history of financial scandals from the early days of the young republic through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times. A host of colorful characters inhabit the pages of this history, revealing human nature in all of its dubious shades of gray. At the same time, the book exposes themes common to all financial scandals, which remain astonishingly unchanged over more than two centuries--greed, hubris, media connections, self-interested politicians, and booms-gone-bust, to name a few.Informative and entertaining, Separating Fools should engage the interest of investors and casual business readers, as well as economists interested in supplemental reading for their students.A new introduction focuses on trends since publication of the original, with a postscript on the financial panic of 2008.

Author : Ronald F. Duska
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402049846
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Reflections on Business Ethics written by Ronald F. Duska and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 30 years Ronald F. Duska has established himself as one of the leading scholars in business ethics. This book presents Duska’s articles the years on ethics, business ethics, teaching ethics, agency theory, postmodernism, employee rights, and ethics in accounting and the financial services industry. These reflect his underlying philosophical concerns and their application to real-world challenges — a method that might be called an Aristotelian common-sense approach to ethical decision making.

Author : Satyajit Das
Publisher : Pearson UK
ISBN 13 : 0273778366
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traders, Guns and Money written by Satyajit Das and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel P. King
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824830144
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Trust written by Samuel P. King and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the largest landowner and richest woman in the Hawaiian kingdom. Upon her death in 1884, she entrusted her property--"known as Bishop Estate--"to five trustees in order to create and maintain an institution that would benefit the children of Hawai'i: Kamehameha Schools. A century later, Bishop Estate controlled nearly one out of every nine acres in the state, a concentration of private land ownership rarely seen anywhere in the world. Then in August 1997 the unthinkable happened: Four revered kupuna (native Hawaiian elders) and a professor of trust-law publicly charged Bishop Estate trustees with gross incompetence and massive trust abuse. Entitled "Broken Trust," the statement provided devastating details of rigged appointments, violated trusts, cynical manipulation of the trust's beneficiaries, and the shameful involvement of many of Hawai'i's powerful. No one is better qualified to examine the events and personalities surrounding the scandal than two of the original "Broken Trust" authors.Their comprehensive account together with historical background, brings to light information that has never before been made public, including accounts of secret meetings and communications involving Supreme Court justices.