Age of greed the triumph of finance and the decline of America, 1970 to the present
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- ISBN: 9780307596710 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307596710 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (xi, 464 p.) : ill. - Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Revolution -- Prologue Lewis Uhler believer -- Walter Wriston regulatory revoltá -- Milton Friedman proselytizer -- Richard Nixon and Arthur Burns political expediencyá -- Joe Flom the hostile takeover -- Ivan Boesky wanting it all -- Walter Wriston II bailing out citibank -- Ronald Reagan the making of an ideology -- Ted Turner, Sam Walton, and Steveáross size becomes strategy -- Jimmy Carter and Charles Schultze capitulation -- Howard Jarvis tapping the anger -- Paul Volcker, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan revolution completed -- The new guard -- Tom Peters and Jack Welch promises broken -- Michael Milken "the magnificent" -- Alan Greenspan ideologue -- George Soros and John Meriwether fabulous wealth and controversial power -- Sandy Weill king of the world -- Sandy Weill, Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, and Ken Lay decade of deceit -- Angelo Mozilo, the American tragedy -- Jimmy Cayne, Richard Fuld, Stan O'Neal, Chuck Prince collapse. |
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