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Author |
: Scott B. MacDonald |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2017-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351306782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351306782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Separating Fools from Their Money by : Scott B. MacDonald
What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? Which US war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street? These questions and more are discussed in Separating Fools from Their Money. The authors trace the history of financial scandals beginning with young republic days through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times. Informative and entertaining, this book reveals human nature in all of its dubious shades of grey. It also exposes themes common to all financial scandals, which remain astonishingly unchanged over time?greed, hubris, media connections, self-interested politicians, and booms-gone-bust, to name a few. This second edition features a new preface and introduction, plus three new chapters, which address the financial panic of 2008, post-panic scandals, and the "princes of Ponzi." This book's accessible writing will interest the casual business reader as well as the seasoned investor.
Author |
: Scott B. MacDonald |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0765803569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780765803566 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Separating Fools from Their Money by : Scott B. MacDonald
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.
Author |
: Scott B. MacDonald |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 422 |
Release |
: 2017-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351491433 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351491431 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Separating Fools from Their Money by : Scott B. MacDonald
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 |
: Scott B. MacDonald |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2017-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351306799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351306790 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Separating Fools from Their Money by : Scott B. MacDonald
What do Michael Milken and Martha Stewart have in common? What was the most outrageous party thrown by a financial baron of the twentieth century? Which US war hero president became party to, and victim of, an unabashed con man known as the Napoleon of Wall Street? These questions and more are discussed in Separating Fools from Their Money. The authors trace the history of financial scandals beginning with young republic days through the Enron/WorldCom debacle of modern times. Informative and entertaining, this book reveals human nature in all of its dubious shades of grey. It also exposes themes common to all financial scandals, which remain astonishingly unchanged over time greed, hubris, media connections, self-interested politicians, and booms-gone-bust, to name a few. This second edition features a new preface and introduction, plus three new chapters, which address the financial panic of 2008, post-panic scandals, and the "princes of Ponzi." This book's accessible writing will interest the casual business reader as well as the seasoned investor.
Author |
: Paul H. Robinson |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 405 |
Release |
: 2018-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538102022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538102021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crimes That Changed Our World by : Paul H. Robinson
Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity’s wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes “trigger” improvement in our lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world. The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present. Each case is in some ways unique but there are repeating patterns that can offer important insights about what produces change and how in the future we might best manage it. Sometimes reform comes as a society wrestles with a new and intolerable problem. Sometimes it comes because an old problem from which we have long suffered suddenly has an apparent solution provided by technology or some other social or economic advance. Or, sometimes the engine of reform kicks into gear simply because we decide as a society that we are no longer willing to tolerate a long-standing problem and are now willing to do something about it. As the amazing and often touching stories that the Robinsons present make clear, the path of progress is not just a long series of course corrections; sometimes it is a quick turn or an unexpected lurch. In a flash we can suddenly feel different about present circumstances, seeing a need for change and can often, just as suddenly, do something about it. Every trigger crime that appears in Crimes That Changed Our World highlights a societal problem that America has chosen to deal with, each in a unique way. But what these extraordinary, and sometime unexpected, cases have in common is that all of them describe crimes that changed our world.
Author |
: David E McClean |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2015-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317317623 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317317629 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wall Street, Reforming the Unreformable by : David E McClean
McClean argues that a collective move towards stewardship within the financial industry is necessary to restore ethical behaviour and public confidence. Drawing on practical examples and offering new policy recommendations, this unique philosophical study paints a picture of what a truly ethical trading culture of the future might look like.
Author |
: Michael Sims |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2009-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0143105663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780143105664 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime by : Michael Sims
An exclusive collection—the first-ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era, including Arsène Lupin, the inspiration for the new Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sy collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl-burgling London and Paris, conning New York and Ostend, laughing all the way to the bank. Also featured are stories by distinguished writers from outside the mystery and detective genres, including Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and William Hope Hodgson.
Author |
: Scott B. MacDonald |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2011-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781412843980 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1412843987 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Small Countries Crash by : Scott B. MacDonald
The public is fascinated with financial crashes. Historians portray the roar of an angry mob toppling presidents or prime ministers and destroying the property of those who are regarded as malefactors. And certainly, financial crisis is often a factor in political change. It is often overlooked, but nonetheless significant that one of the major causes for the French Revolution was the poor state of finances, with the nation coming to bankruptcy. Large systemic financial crises create history. Various actors, big and small, become caught in the drama, contributing to it in their own special way. When Small Countries Crash seeks to capture some of the drama of financial collapses and their impact on small countries, which the authors define as populations under 10 million, generally 5-6 million. MacDonald and Novo have selected countries that have had a financial crisis in the national economy; that included key actors; and where access to reliable data is available. As the authors demonstrate, the story of small countries suffering the costs of financial missteps is long and painful. They argue that smaller economies tend to be more vulnerable to economic shocks, many of which are externally generated. Small economies confront particular challenges in terms of economies of scale, diversification, and depth of expertise and workforce. The chapters in this absorbing book focus on Iceland, Latvia, Ireland, the Caribbean, Scotland, Finland, and Albania. This in-depth study is unique in its close look at financial disasters in countries that have, until now, been overlooked.
Author |
: Theodore Douglas MacGregor |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 1915 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433008108593 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book of Thrift by : Theodore Douglas MacGregor
Author |
: Robert Frederick Foster |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 952 |
Release |
: 1909 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HN5TSN |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (SN Downloads) |
Synopsis Foster's Complete Hoyle by : Robert Frederick Foster