Dirty money : on financial delinquency / Vincenzo Ruggiero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruggiero, Vincenzo, author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology.

Clarendon studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crises--History.

Financial crises.

Commercial crimes--History.

Commercial crimes.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Navigating financial crashes of the Late Middle Ages up to the present day and analysing them through the lenses of classical, positivist, functionalist and Marxist criminology, this work explores the growth of grey areas in the financial world and our understanding, or misunderstanding, of financial delinquency.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

2. Money and Salvation

From the Good Life to the Just Reward

Saints and Economists

Afterlife and Wealth

Parable of the Debtors

Innocence and Idolatry

Rabelais and the Spirit of Capitalism

Economics and Religion

Triumph of Plutus

3. Between Sin and Crisis

London and Paris Bubbles

John Law

Luxury, Usury, and Crime

From Utility to Happiness

Fin de Siecle

4. Bankers and Robber Barons

Railways and Crooks

Legendary Tycoons

Deviant Benefactors

Statistical and Logical Impossibility

Old and New Crimes

Passionate Interests

Charlatans and Thieves

Infinite Aspiration and Habit

Scrooge or Faust?

5. Black Tuesday and Beasts of Prey

Fraudulent Schemes

Flood of Corporate Larceny

Swindlers and Greed

Return of Criminaloids

Anality and Learning Processes

Differential Association

Theft and Cupidity

Money and Genius

6. Incompetent Muddlers and Organization Men

From the New Deal to the Marshall Plan

Eurodollars

Drifting and Rationalizing

Gambling as Swindling

Corporate Functionaries

Exchange of Financial Services

7. Paper World

Honest Players in Immoral Systems

Individuals and Organizations

Routine, Cycles, and the Irrelevance of Persons

Trickle Down and Trickle Up

Financial Crime Compendium

Restaurateurs and Customers

Ubiquity of Financial Crime

8. Psychopaths and Thrills

Fraudulent Bookkeeping

Metaphors for Our Times

Psychopaths

Thrill, Suitable Targets, and Rationalizations

Interrelated Contexts

Concise Florilegium

Irresponsible Firm

Financial Meltdown and White-collar Crime

Anomalies and Inherent Instability

Networks of Greed

9. Various Shades of Grey

Preventing Future Crises?

Business as Usual

Balloon Effect

10. Hidden Wealth of Nations

Money Laundering

Furtive Money

Zero-tax Countries

Londongrad

Inefficiency

Resource and Finance Curse

Mobility and Crime

Mathematical Morality

Networks and Hybridity

Fuzziness

11. Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-109277-0

0-19-182625-1