How they got away with it
Subtitle: white collar criminals and the financial meltdown
By: edited by Susan Will, Stephen Handelman, and David C. Brotherton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780231156905; 9780231156912; 9780231527668
Subjects: White collar crimes; Commercial crimes; Commercial criminals; Financial crises
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Roots of the crisis; title: Wall Street : crime never sleeps / David O. Freidrichs; title: The logics of finance : abuse of power and systemic crisis / Saskia Sassen; title: America's Ponzi culture / Susan Will; title: Bernie Madoff, finance capital, and the anomic society / Jock Young; title: Enablers of fraud; title: Unaccountable external auditors and their role in the economic meltdown / Gilbert Geis; title: And some with a fountain pen : mortgage fraud, securitization, and the subprime bubble / Harold C. Barnett; title: Generating the alpha return : how Ponzi schemes lure the unwary in an unregulated market / David Shapiro; title: Perverted justice; title: The technological advantages of stock market traders / Laureen Snider; title: Why ceos are able to loot with impunity and why it matters / William K. Black; title: The façade of enforcement : Goldman Sachs, negotiated prosecution, and the politics of blame / Justin O'Brien; title: Perspectives from afar; title: Reappraising regulation : the politics of "regulatory retreat" in the United Kingdom / Steve Tombs and David Whyte; title: How they still try to get away with it : crime in the Dutch real estate sector before and after the crisis / Hans Nelen and Luuk Ritzen; title: Economic and financial criminality in Portugal / Rita Faria, José Cruz, André Lamas Leite, and Pedro Sousa; title: Greece "for sale" : casino economy and state-corporate crime / Sophia Vidali; title: Financial fraud in China : a structural examination of law and law enforcement / Hongming Cheng; title: Epilogue can they still get away with it?; title: Appendix A: short (global) history of financial meltdowns / compiled by Alex Holden; title: Contributors; title: Index.