Banking on fraud : Drexel, junk bonds, and buyouts /

"Banking on Fraud investigates the fraud-facilitated leveraged buyouts engineered by Michael Milken and the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, and suggests how such buyouts have multiple and extensive consequences for the organization of business and the economy. The book answers several important...

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Main Author: Zey, Mary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Aldine de Gruyter, ©1993.
Series:Social institutions and social change
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Doing Fraud and Its Consequences. 1. An Error and Its Chain Reaction. 2. Fraud Networks of Drexel. 3. Consequences of Fraud-Facilitated Leveraged Buyouts
  • Pt. II. Toward Understanding Fraud. 4. Structural Contradictions and the Failure of Corporate Control. 5. The Nature of Securities Transactions and Market Control
  • Pt. III. Toward Understanding Fraud as Structurally Embedded. 6. Economic Context. 7. Political-Legal Context
  • Pt. IV. Toward Theory. 8. Toward Theories of Economic Organizations and Organizational Crime.