Age of greed the triumph of finance and the decline of America, 1970 to the present
As Jeff Madrick makes clear, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who argue that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns. In telling the stories of these politicians, econom...
| Main Author: | Madrick, Jeffrey G. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.