History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff

In his new book, History of Greed, noted financial fraud expert David E.Y. Sarna posits that the major scandals that came to light in 2008, like most of those in the last two hundred years are just the superficial manifestations of a system that, at its core, is based on fraud, greed and dishonesty.

Spis treści:
Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Chapter 1: Selling Air.
Why Now?
Chapter 2: Crash Post–Mortem.
How Greed, Hubris and Lack of Supervision Did Investors In.
Chapter 3: Why We Do It.
Bubbles and Fraud.
Chapter 4: Securities Fraud.
It′s Long and Storied Past.
Chapter 5: The Perils of Greed.
It′s All for the Easy Money.
Chapter 6: The Elements of Financial Fraud.
A Case Study with “Crazy Eddie” Antar.
Chapter 7: “Other People′s Money”.
And the O.P.M. Leasing Fraud.
Chapter 8: Smaller Company Fraud.
The ISC Story.
Chapter 9: Selling Long and Short.
But Mostly Short.
Chapter 10: Market Manipulation.
Improper Short Selling and Other Abuses.
Chapter 11: PIPES.
Investing Unfairly.
Chapter 12: Promotion Fraud.
Pump and Dump.
Chapter 13: Leaks, Front Running, and Insider Trading.
Test Yourself.
Chapter 14: Fictitious Volume.
A "Pump and Dump" Scam with Intrigue.
Chapter 15: Parachute into Prison.
U.S. v. Schrenker.
Chapter 16: Affinity Group Fraud.
Chapter 17: Twentieth Century Ponzi Schemes.
Chapter 18: Hit Charade.
Lou Pearlman.
Chapter 19: Hedge Fund Ponzi Fraud.
Hedge Funds are For Big Boys.
Chapter 20: Part I.
The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes.
Chapter 21: Part II.
The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes.
Chapter 22: Part III.
The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes.
Chapter 23: Part IV.
The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes.
Chapter 24: Other Recent Ponzi Schemes.
Chapter 25: Stanford Group.
A Massive $7 Billion, Multinational Fraud Comes to Light.
Chapt er 26: Ultimate Hutzpa.
The Strange Tale of Marc Dreier, Esq.
Chapter 27: Detecting Fraudulent Financial Schemes.
Chapter 28: Fraudulent Offerings.
A Short Look.
Chapter 29: Auction Rate Securities.
A $330 Billion Fraud?
Chapter 30: $132 Million Tax–Free Exchange Fraud.
Section 1031.
Chapter 31: Not Smart.
The Smart Online Trading Scam.
Chapter 32: Boiler Rooms.
When the Heat Rises.
Chapter 33: Accounting Frauds.
With Examples.
Chapter 34: Stock Option Frauds.
Chapter 35: Odd and Unusual Financial Fraud.
Afterword: What Does the Future Hold?
Notes.
About the Author.
Index.