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1 online resource. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Includes index. |
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Roots of the crisis -- Wall Street : crime never sleeps / David O. Freidrichs -- The logics of finance : abuse of power and systemic crisis / Saskia Sassen -- America's Ponzi culture / Susan Will -- Bernie Madoff, finance capital, and the anomic society / Jock Young -- Enablers of fraud -- Unaccountable external auditors and their role in the economic meltdown / Gilbert Geis -- And some with a fountain pen : mortgage fraud, securitization, and the subprime bubble / Harold C. Barnett -- Generating the alpha return : how Ponzi schemes lure the unwary in an unregulated market / David Shapiro -- Perverted justice -- The technological advantages of stock market traders / Laureen Snider -- Why ceos are able to loot with impunity and why it matters / William K. Black -- The façade of enforcement : Goldman Sachs, negotiated prosecution, and the politics of blame / Justin O'Brien -- Perspectives from afar -- Reappraising regulation : the politics of "regulatory retreat" in the United Kingdom / Steve Tombs and David Whyte -- How they still try to get away with it : crime in the Dutch real estate sector before and after the crisis / Hans Nelen and Luuk Ritzen -- Economic and financial criminality in Portugal / Rita Faria, José Cruz, André Lamas Leite, and Pedro Sousa -- Greece "for sale" : casino economy and state-corporate crime / Sophia Vidali -- Financial fraud in China : a structural examination of law and law enforcement / Hongming Cheng -- Epilogue can they still get away with it? -- Appendix A: short (global) history of financial meltdowns / compiled by Alex Holden -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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White collar crimes.
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Commercial crimes.
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Commercial criminals.
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Financial crises.
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| Added Author |
Will, Susan.
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Handelman, Stephen.
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Brotherton, David.
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Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Original 9780231156905 0231156901 9780231156912 023115691X 0231527667 (DLC) 2012017414 |
| ISBN |
0231527667 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231527668 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231156905 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0231156901 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780231156912 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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023115691X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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