Title:
Separating fools from their money : a history of American financial scandals / Scott B. MacDonald and Jane E. Hughes.
Author:
MacDonald, Scott B.
Hughes, Jane E. (Jane Elizabeth)
Publication Information:
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, c2015.
Call Number:
HV6769 .M33 2015
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9781412855006
9780765803566
Physical Description:
x, 352 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Wall Street loses its innocence: William Duer and the panic of 1792 -- gilded age part I: all that glitters -- gilded age part II: of presidents and bankers -- Teapot Dome erupts -- Empires undone: Samuel Insull, the emperor of utilities -- decade of greed: Michael Milken, junk bonds, and insiders (1980s) -- decade of greed, continued: where the money is -- 1990s B.E. (Before Enron): a few bad apples, or rotten to the core? -- Enron etc. vol. I: crooks, liars, and envelope-pushers -- Enron etc. vol. II: enablers, symbols, and scapegoats -- Financial panic of 2008 -- Fooled you again: scandal in the post-panic years -- Prince and Ponzi: Charles Ponzi to Bernie Madoff --
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