The Speculation Economy
The Speculation Economy
How Finance Triumphed Over Industry
Edition: 1
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 10 November, 2008
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9781609944483
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As the 20th century dawned there was a silent but fateful transformation in the purpose of the American economy. Finance stopped serving industry and twisted industry to serve its own ends. THE SPECULATION ECONOMY shows this reversal of economic priorities, and its sometimes-disastrous consequences, demonstrated most recently by Enron.
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As the 20th century dawned there was a silent but fateful transformation in the purpose of the American economy. Finance stopped serving industry and twisted industry to serve its own ends. THE SPECULATION ECONOMY shows this reversal of economic priorities, and its sometimes-disastrous consequences, demonstrated most recently by Enron.
Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- PREFACE
- PROLOGUE
- ONE: THE PRINCIPLE OF COOPERATION
- TWO: SANCTUARY
- THREE: TRANSCENDENTAL VALUE
- FOUR: THE NEW PROPERTY
- FIVE: THE COMPLEX WHOLE
- SIX: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
- SEVEN: PANIC AND PROGRESS
- EIGHT: THE SPECULATION ECONOMY
- NINE: THE END OF REFORM
- TEN: MMUFACTURIIVG SECURITIES
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ABOUT BERRETT-KOEHLER PUBLISHERS
- BE CONNECTED
