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The way we live now
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Anthony Trollope |
From a review of the Anthony Trollope canon in The Economist (2020/04/08 edition):
*“The Way We Live Now” (1875) is as much a portrait of the last few decades as it is of the high Victorian age, and… |
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Zero coupon
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Paul Emil Erdman |
"First edition: October 1993" |
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The Madoff Chronicles
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Brian Ross |
After the news broke of Bernie Madoff's arrest on December 11, 2008, the facts were hard to grasp. Madoff claimed to have stolen fifty billion dollars; the sum seemed impossibly large. But of course … |
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Paranoia
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Joseph Finder |
Adam Cassidy is twenty-six and a low-level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a cri… |
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Madoff
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Erin Arvedlund |
Take the combined fortunes of Bill Gates, Tiger Woods and Roman Abramovich. Now imagine someone stealing that much money – and being hailed as a financial genius.That man is Bernard Madoff. Backed by… |
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Fifteen digits
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Nick Santora |
A fifteen-digit bank account number holds the key to a plot involving five behind-the-scenes employees at a law firm who use discarded documents full of sensitive legal information to get rich. |
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Financial market bubbles and crashes
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Harold L. Vogel |
"Despite the thousands of articles and the millions of times that the word 'bubble' has been used in the business press, there still does not appear to be a cohesive theory or persuasive empirical ap… |
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Empire of deception
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Dean Jobb |
"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld … |
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Why they do it
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Eugene Soltes |
"Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business S… |
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The case for the corporate death penalty
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Mary Kreiner Ramirez |
xiv, 257 pages : 24 cm |
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On the rampage
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Russell Mokhiber,Robert Weissman |
From Worldcom to Coke, from Enron to the White House, these columns offer trenchant revelations of corporate dirty deeds. Featuring the 10 worst corporations and 10 reasons to dismantle the World tra… |
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Encyclopedia of white-collar and corporate crime
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Lawrence M. Salinger |
This work incorporates information about a variety of white-collar crimes, and provides examples of persons, statutes, companies, and convictions. Each entry offers a thorough and thoughtful summary … |
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CBS Murders
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Richard Hammer |
244 pages : 20 cm |
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Ice Man Cometh
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Jonathan Edwards,Ian Griffiths |
Summary:Jon Johannesson's retail group, Baugur, has become famous in the UK for boldly snapping up familiar high street chains such as Oasis, Iceland and Hamleys toy shop. This book reveals how Baugu… |
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State Financial Crime Task Force
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Illinois State Police |
Illinois state and federal law enforcement agencies formed the State Financial Crime Task Force (1995- ), a cooperative attempt to detect, investigate and prosecute perpetrators of financial crimes a… |
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White-collar crime and criminal career
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Elin Waring,Ellen F. Chayet,David Weisburd |
"Criminologists have turned their attention to the origins and paths of the criminal career for what this approach reveals about the causes, manifestations, and prevention of crime. Studies of the cr… |
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Market forces
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Richard K. Morgan |
From the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels--a turbocharged new thriller set in a world where killers are stars, media is mass entertainment, and freedom is a dangerous proposit… |
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Paul Martin et compagnies
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Alain Deneault |
109, [1] p. ; 22 cm |
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All My Sons
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Arthur Miller |
Set during World War II, a troubled father and son know that a second son will never return from the war, even though the mother believes her missing boy will soon come home. But such turmoil only co… |
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Capitalism's Achilles Heel
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Raymond W. Baker |
For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism's Achilles Heel, … |
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