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The speculation economy : how finance triumphed over industry / Lawrence E. Mitchell.
Lippincott Library HC103 .M684 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Lawrence E.
- Series:
- BK currents book
- A BK currents book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Economic policy.
- United States.
- Economic policy.
- Industries--United States.
- Industries.
- Corporations--United States.
- Corporations.
- Finance--United States.
- Finance.
- Speculation--United States.
- Speculation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 395 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2007]
- Summary:
- As the 20th century dawned there was a silent but fateful transformation in the purpose of the American economy. Finance stopped serving industry and twisted industry to serve its own ends. THE SPECULATION ECONOMY shows this reversal of economic priorities, and its sometimes-disastrous consequences, demonstrated most recently by Enron.
- Contents:
- The principle of cooperation
- Sanctuary
- Transcendental value
- The new property
- The complex whole
- Much ado about nothing
- Panic and progress
- The speculation economy
- The end of reform
- Manufacturing securities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-377) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781576754009
- 1576754006
- OCLC:
- 136777874
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