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Infectious greed : how deceit and risk corrupted the financial markets / Frank Partnoy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partnoy, Frank.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States.
- Corporations.
- Corporations--United States--Auditing.
- Financial services industry--Corrupt practices--United States.
- Financial services industry.
- Fraud--United States--Prevention.
- Fraud.
- Securities fraud--United States.
- Securities fraud.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (496 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- How deceit and risk corrupted the financial markets
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A revised, updated edition of the critically acclaimed history of ?the lost decade" of high finance?the 1990s?when Wall Street started to spiral out of control
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Introduction 1; Stage One: Infection; 1. Patient Zero 9; 2. Monkeys on Their Backs 34; 3. Wheat First Securities 60; 4. Unreconciled Balances 82; 5. A New Breed of Speculator 110; Stage Two: Incubation; 6. Morals of the Marketplace 139; 7. Messages Received 185; Stage Three: Epidemic; 8. The Domino Effect 225; 9. The Last One to the Party 265; 10. The World's Greatest Company 294; 11. Hot Potato 348; Epilogue 397; Notes 421; Acknowledgments 455; Index 457
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-453) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-13929-4
- 9786613139290
- 1-58648-867-8
- 0-7867-3355-1
- OCLC:
- 646821876
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