| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 388 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-375) and index. |
| Summary |
"Award-winning business journalist Rana Foroohar shows how the shortsighted and misguided financial practices that nearly toppled the global economy in 2008 have come to infiltrate all corners of American business--putting us on a dangerous collision course to another economic meltdown that will make 2008 look like a mere blip in the business cycle"-- Provided by publisher. |
| 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. |
| Subject(S) |
Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Finance -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Business enterprises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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| Added Title |
Rise of finance and the fall of American business |
| ISBN |
9780553447231 (hardback) |
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0553447238 (hardback) |
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