Age of greed:the triumph of finance and the decline of America, 1970 to the present/ Jeff Madrick.
Physical description:
xi, 464 p. ill. 25 cm.;
Bibliographic notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-442) and index.;
Edition:
1st ed.;
Author(s): MADRICK, Jeffrey G.;
ISBN:
9781400041718 (hbk.;
Subjects: Wealth --Moral and ethical aspects.;
Financial crises --United States --History.;
United States --Politics and government --20th century.;
United States --Politics and government --21st century.;
Formatted contents notes:
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.;
Publisher:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf , c2011.;
Call number: 330.9730092'2 MAD;
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