Inside job
Subtitle: the financiers who pulled off the heist of the century
By: Charles Ferguson
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781851689156; 9781780740720
Subjects: Financial services industry; Corrupt practices; Case studies; Financial crises; History; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Finanzkrise
Description: The definitive big picture on the financial crisis from the man behind the film "Inside Job", one of the top 30 documentaries of all time and an Oscar-winning film. Based on explosive interviews conducted by Ferguson, as well as documents buried in court records and archives, this traces how the financial industry and its enablers went rogue.
Notes: Acquisitions record.

Format: Paperback.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: Where we are now; title: Opening Pandora's Box : the era of deregulation, 1980-2000; title: The bubble, part one : borrowing and lending in the 2000s; title: Wall Street makes a bubble and gives it to the world; title: All fall down : warnings, predators, crises, responses; title: Crime and punishment : banking and the bubble as criminal enterprises; title: Agents of pain : unregulated finance as a subtractive industry; title: The ivory tower; title: A rigged game; title: What should be done?