Separating Fools from Their Money
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-1054-8 (ISBN)
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.
Scott B. MacDonald is a partner and co-head of research at Aladdin Capital Management, LLC. He is the author of European Destiny, Atlantic Transformations and the co-author, with Albert L. Gastmann, of A History of Credit and Power in the Western World, both available from Transaction. Jane E. Hughes is a professor of finance at Hult International Business School in Boston. She is the co-author, with Scott B. MacDonald, of International Banking and, with Scott B. MacDonald and David Leith Crum, of New Tiger and Old Elephants available from Transaction.
Revised Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. Wall Street Loses Its Innocence: William Duer and the Panic of 1792, 3. The Gilded Age Part I: All That Glitters, 4. The Gilded Age Part II: Of Presidents and Bankers, 5. Teapot Dome Erupts, 6. Empires Undone: Samuel Insull, the Emperor of Utilities, 7. The Decade of Greed: Michael Milken, Junk Bonds, and Insiders (1980s), 8. The Decade of Greed, Continued: Where the Money Is, 9. The 1990s B.E. (Before Enron): A Few Bad Apples, or Rotten to the Core?, 10. Enron Etc. Vol. I: Crooks, Liars, and Envelope-Pushers, 11. Enron Etc. Vol. II: Enablers, Symbols, and Scapegoats, 12. Eliot the Untouchable (Spitzer, not Ness), 13. Conclusion, Postscript: The Financial Panic of 2007-2008, Selected Bibliography, Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.4.2009 |
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Reihe/Serie | Separating Fools from Their Money |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 800 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4128-1054-X / 141281054X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4128-1054-8 / 9781412810548 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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