Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets

Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets image
ISBN-10:

1846682932

ISBN-13:

9781846682933

Author(s): FRANK PARTNOY
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Released: Jan 01, 2010
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback, 496 pages
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Description:

As the global financial crisis unfolds people everywhere are seeking to understand how markets devolved to this perilous, volatile state. In this dazzling and meticulously researched work of financial history, first published in 2003, and now thoroughly revised and updated, law professor and financial expert Frank Partnoy tells the story of how classical” Wall Street securities like stocks and bonds were quietly eclipsed by ever more quantum” products like derivatives. He documents how, starting in the mid-1980s, each new level of financial risk and complexity obscured the sickness of corporate America, and how Wall Street's evlving paradigm moved farther and farther beyond the understandingand regulationof ordinary investors and government overseers, leading inevitably to disaster.












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