Wall Streeters : the creators and corruptors of American finance /

The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics - many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward Morris...

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Main Author: Morris, Edward L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia Business School Publishing, Columbia University Press, 2015
Series:Columbia Business School publishing.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • J. Pierpont Morgan : Jupiter
  • Reformers. Paul M. Warburg : Daddy Warbucks ; Carter Glass : unreconstructed rebel ; Ferdinand Pecora : hellhound of Wall Street
  • Democratizers. Charles E. Merrill : the people's capitalist ; John C. Bogle : Saint Jack
  • Academics. Georges F. Doriot : dream builder ; Benjamin Graham : dean of Wall Street ; Myron S. Scholes : professor of derivatives
  • Financial engineers. Alfred Winslow Jones : financial hippie ; Michael R. Milken : junk bond king ; Lewis Ranieri : father of securitization
  • Empire builders. William H. Donaldson : entrepreneur ; Sanford I. Weill : conglomerateur.