Makers and takers the rise of finance and the fall of American business
"Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned--and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage cri...
| Main Author: | Foroohar, Rana (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Business,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The rise of finance
- The fall of business: bean counters versus car guys
- Frederick Winslow Taylor, Robert McNamara, and the financialization of industry
- What an MBA won't teach you: how business education is failing American businesses
- Barbarians at the gate: Apple, Carl Icahn, and the rise of shareholder activism
- We're all bankers now: GE and the story of how American business came to emulate finance
- Financial weapons of mass destruction: commodities, derivatives, and how Wall Street created a food crisis
- When Wall Street owns Main Street: private equity, shadow banking, and how finance reaped the benefits of the housing recovery
- The end of retirement: how Wall Street ate our nest eggs
- The artful dodgers: how our tax code rewards the takers instead f the makers
- The revolving door: how Washington favors Wall Street over Main Street
- How to put finance back in service to business and society.