Age of Greed : : the Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
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Revolution -- Prologue Lewis Uhler believer -- Walter Wriston regulatory revolt -- Milton Friedman proselytizer -- Richard Nixon and Arthur Burns political expediency -- Joe Flom the hostile takeover and its consequences -- Ivan Boesky wanting it all -- Walter Wriston II bailing out citibank -- Ronald Reagan the making of an ideology -- Ted Turner, Sam Walton, and Steve Ross size becomes strategy -- Jimmy Carter capitulation -- Howard Jarvis and Jack Kemp 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 -- Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Ken Lay and Sandy Weill decade of deceit -- Angelo Mozilo the American tragedy -- Jimmy Cayne, Richard Fuld, Stan O'Neal and Chuck Prince collapse.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xi, 464 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781400041718
1400041716
SUBJECTS
Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Financial crises -- History.
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.