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 plots in absorbing detail Wall Street's transformation from a clubby enclave of financiers to a symbol of vast economic power.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. J. Pierpont Morgan: Jupiter
Part I: Reformers
2. Paul M. Warburg: Daddy Warbucks
3. Carter Glass: Unreconstructed Rebel
4. Ferdinand Pecora: Hellhound of Wall Street
Part II: Democratizers
5. Charles E. Merrill: The People's Capitalist
6. John C. Bogle: Saint Jack
Part III: Academics
7. Georges F. Doriot: Dream Builder
8. Benjamin Graham: Dean of Wall Street
9. Myron S. Scholes: Professor of Derivatives
Part IV: Financial Engineers
10. Alfred Winslow Jones: Financial Hippie
11. Michael R. Milken: Junk Bond King
12. Lewis Ranieri: Father of Securitization
Part V: Empire Builders
13. William H. Donaldson: Entrepreneur
14. Sanford I. Weill: Conglomerateur
Conclusion
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

About the author

Ed Morris is a professor of finance and former dean of the business school at Lindenwood University. Before beginning his teaching career, he was an investment banker and served as executive vice president of Stifel, Nicolaus, & Co. He has served on the boards of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Morris, Morris Edward
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780231170550
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17055-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Columbia Business School Publi; Columbia Business School Publi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General, macroeconomics, United States of America, USA, History of specific companies / corporate history, Insurance & actuarial studies, Insurance and actuarial studies