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

As Jeff Madrick makes clear, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who argue that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns. In telling the stories of these politicians, econom...

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Main Author: Madrick, Jeffrey G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
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505 0 |a 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 -- 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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