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As eager-beaver business school students, Rolfe and Troob garnered job offers as junior associates at the elite Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, lured by dreams of wealth, glamour and power. Readers whose fascination with Wall Street shenanigans has been fueled [...]
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The latest from Renehan, author most recently of a much-praised biography of another titan of 19th-century business, Jay Gould, is a thorough look at Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), who rose from nothing to amass one of the great fortunes in American history (more than [...]
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Let’s get one thing straight: Carl Hiaasen doesn’t like the Walt Disney Company. Whenever the giant entertainment conglomerate stumbles, as it did with its proposed Civil War theme park in Virginia, Hiaasen cheers. When a rhinoceros mysteriously dies at Disney’s new theme park, Animal Kingdom, Hiaasen secretly [...]
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Starred Review. Globalization may seem like a relatively new term, but Chandra, a director for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, argues intriguingly that its history ranges across centuries, beginning when the first humans left Africa, “following game herds… or [...]
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From the Micronesian Yap islands’ 12-foot stone “coins” to today’s paper currencies backed only by fiat, Nobel-laureate economist Friedman ( Free to Choose ) here examines anomalies of world monetary history, including the effect of successive 19th-century gold ore discoveries and refining improvements [...]
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For most of the last three millennia, the world’s commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it’s not. It’s one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been [...]
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Full text of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and implementing regulations Analysis of BSA provisions, with special emphasis on USA PATRIOT Act provisions, as well as OFAC’s sanction programs and money laundering Full text of agency issuances Compliance Notes will highlight compliance [...]
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This excellent new book from one of the brightest young economists, Giuseppe Fontana, involves a compendium of issues surrounding uncertainty, money and time. Fontana shines a Post Keynesian light onto statements and claims made by well-known neo-classical authors and as such leaves us with an interesting and informative book to be [...]
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International in its appeal, this book uses high-level and multi-theoretical analyses involving psychological and sociological theories to explore the events of Nick Leeson’s employment with Barings’ in Singapore in 1992 to Barings’ collapse in 1995.Giving readers valuable insights into organizational behaviour analysis and how and why organizations fail, it is a [...]
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Provides a unique comparative survey of financial systems in Europe and the US, unified under a rigorous theoretical framework.
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