Makers and takers
Subtitle: how Wall Street destroyed Main Street
By: Rana Foroohar
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Crown Business
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780553447255
Subjects: Financial crises; Business enterprises; Government policy; Finance; History
Notes: "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Businness ... in 2016."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of finance; title: The fall of business: bean counters versus car guys; title: Frederick Winslow Taylor, Robert McNamara, and the financialization of industry; title: What an MBA won't teach you: how business education is failing American businesses; title: Barbarians at the gate: Apple, Carl Icahn, and the rise of shareholder activism; title: We're all bankers now: GE and the story of how American business came to emulate finance; title: Financial weapons of mass destruction: commodities, derivatives, and how Wall Street created a food crisis; title: When Wall Street owns Main Street: private equity, shadow banking, and how finance reaped the benefits of the housing recovery; title: The end of retirement: how Wall Street ate our nest eggs; title: The artful dodgers: how our tax code rewards the takers instead of the makers; title: The revolving door: how Washington favors Wall Street over Main Street; title: How to put finance back in service to business and society.