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Language: en
Pages: 418
Pages: 418
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-30 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Language: en
Pages: 225
Pages: 225
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books
A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayere
Language: en
Pages: 408
Pages: 408
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-12-01 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press
More than just a tale of manipulated financial statements, counterfeit securities, sham transactions, and cyber fraud, this story is intertwined with personalit
Language: en
Pages: 414
Pages: 414
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
This book dramatizes the history of self-interest by describing a centuries-long debate over greed, lust, and appropriate gender roles in terms that ordinary re
Language: en
Pages: 482
Pages: 482
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-12 - Publisher: Vintage
A vivid history of the economics of greed told through the stories of those major figures primarily responsible. Age of Greed shows how the single-minded and se