Corporate Scandal - Global Corporatism Against Society

Informationen zum Autor John Gledhill is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester Klappentext When the Enron filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States, if not the world, the immediate response by most politicians and financiers was that this scandal was a "failure of regulatory institutions" that can be corrected and may possibly even be a purely North American problem. However, an in-depth exploration of what happened, as undertaken in this volume, reveals that the widespread corruptions at corporate level have their roots in the transformations of socio-political conditions in the wake of an extreme fetishization of the neo-liberal market model. Zusammenfassung When the Enron filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States, if not the world, the immediate response by most politicians and financiers was that this scandal was a failure of regulatory institutionsA" that can be corrected and may possibly even be a purely North American problem. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Old Economy, New Economy, Old Corruption, New Corruption John Gledhill Chapter 2. Power Projects: Comparing Corporate Scandal and Organized Crime Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider Chapter 3. Lights Out Ananthakrishnan Aiyer Chapter 4. Corruption Scandals in America and Europe: Enron and EU Fraud Cris Shore

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: John Gledhill, John Gledhill Gledhill
• Collaboration: John Gledhill (Editeur)
• Edition: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.07.2004
• EAN: 9781845450021
• ISBN: 978-1-84545-002-1
• Pages: 46
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 171 mm x 6 mm
• Thèmes: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis; Critical Interventions: A Foru
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Physique, astronomie > Mécanique, acoustique; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Politics & government, Politics and government, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Theory and Methodology, Applied Anthropology, Theory and Methodology; Applied Anthropology