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An edition of The money culture (1991)

The money culture

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A collection of columns describing Wall Street and finance during the late 1980s and early 1990s, mostly concerned with the effects of taking on massive debt to carry out leveraged buy-outs.

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W. W. Norton
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282

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Cover of: The money culture
The money culture
1991, W.W. Norton
in English - 1st ed.
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The money culture
1991, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
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1991, W. W. Norton
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Page xiii
I. New World
Page 1
Christmas on Wall Street
Page 5
Leave Home Without It: The Absurdity of the American Express Card
Page 11
Eddie the Chop House Boy
Page 21
Bulldog Bull
Page 39
Mary Cunningham, Meet Ward Cleaver
Page 47
Franky's Longest Mile
Page 55
Leveraged Rip-Off
Page 63
Ski Lift Tiff
Page 73
Barbarians at the Trough
Page 79
The Mystery of the Disappearing Employees
Page 87
Mr. Wall Street Goes to Washington
Page 95
How Wall Street Took the S & L for a Ride
Page 103
When Bad Things Happen to Rich People
Page 111
People in Glass Penthouses...
Page 119
Milken's Morals and Ours
Page 127
Horatio Alger Trumped
Page 133
Taken for a Ride on the Customer's Yacht
Page 141
II. The Old World
Page 163
"Do You Have a Fire in Your Belly?"
Page 167
Les Golden Boys
Page 173
Don't Cry for Me Guacamole
Page 181
Portrait of the American as a Bond Salesman
Page 187
What the British Can Learn from American History
Page 193
Slicing Up the Europe for Fun and Profit
Page 199
III. Other World
Page 207
How a Tokyo Earthquake Could Devastate Wall Street
Page 211
The New York Investment Banker Abroad
Page 233
Japanese Takeout
Page 243
Pickens' Lickin'
Page 249
Kamikaze Capitalism
Page 255
The Japanese Art Bubble
Page 262
A Wall Street Yankee in the Imperial Court
Page 271
Acknowledgments
Page 279
Where and When They First Appeared
Page 281

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New York City, New York, USA

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Paperback
Pagination
xv, 282p.
Number of pages
282

Edition Identifiers

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OL24787024M
ISBN 13
9789393338652

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OL2633632W

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