Title Makers and takers : the rise of finance and the fall of American business / Rana Foroohar.

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New York : Crown Business, [2016]

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Edition	First edition.
Description	xi, 388 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-375) and index.
Contents	The rise of finance -- The fall of business: bean counters versus car guys--Frederick Winslow Taylor, Robert McNamara, and the financialization of industry -- What an MBA won't teach you: how business education is failing American businesses -- Barbarians at the gate: Apple, Carl Icahn, and the rise of shareholder activism -- We're all bankers now: GE and the story of how American business came to emulate finance -- Financial weapons of mass destruction: commodities, derivatives, and how Wall Street created a food crisis -- When Wall Street owns Main Street: private equity, shadow banking, and how finance reaped the benefits of the housing recovery -- The end of retirement: how Wall Street ate our nest eggs -- The artful dodgers: how our tax code rewards the takers instead f the makers -- The revolving door: how Washington favors Wall Street over Main Street -- How to put finance back in service to business and society.
Summary	"Award-winning business journalist Rana Foroohar shows how the shortsighted and misguided financial practices that nearly toppled the global economy in 2008 have come to infiltrate all corners of American business--putting us on a dangerous collision course to another economic meltdown that will make 2008 look like a mere blip in the business cycle"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	Finance -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	Business enterprises -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy.
	Business enterprises. (OCoLC)fst00842519
	Finance -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00924383
	Financial crises. (OCoLC)fst00924607
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Finanzkrise. (DE-588)7635855-0
	Wirtschaftspolitik. (DE-588)4066493-4
	Investition. (DE-588)4027556-5
	Innovation. (DE-588)4027089-0
	Steuersystem. (DE-588)4183215-2
	United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780553447231 (hardcover)
	0553447238 (hardcover)
	9780553447248 (ebook)

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