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Age of greed, the triumph of finance and the decline of America, 1970 to the present, Jeff Madrick

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Age of greed, the triumph of finance and the decline of America, 1970 to the present, Jeff Madrick

Language

eng

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Age of greed

Oclc number

676726572

Responsibility statement

Jeff Madrick

Sub title

the triumph of finance and the decline of America, 1970 to the present

Table Of Contents

[Pt.] 1: 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 -- [Pt.] 2: 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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