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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Prologue: Managing in the Gray
PART I: THE STRUGGLE TO CRIMINALIZE
1. “Not . . . bucket-shop operators, dead-beats, and fly-by-night swindlers”: Pillars of the Community
2. “Guys . . . don’t drop out of windows for no reason”: Creating the White-Collar Criminal
PART II: NATURE OR NURTURE? REASONING OR INTUITION?
3. “Inherently inferior organisms”: Bad People Making Bad Decisions
4. “I thought it was all going to pass”: A Press Release with Consequences
5. “If you don’t take it then you will regret it forever”: The Triumph of Reason
6. “I never once thought of the costs versus rewards”: Intuitive Decisions
7. “I never felt that I was doing anything wrong”: Overlooking Harm
8. “If there was something wrong with this transaction, wouldn’t people have told me?”: The Difficulty of Being Good
PART III: THE BUSINESS OF MALFEASANCE
9. “You can’t make the argument that the public was harmed by anything I did”: Misleading Disclosure
10. “Unfortunately, the world is not black and white”: Financial Reporting Fraud
11. “You go from just being on top of the world”: Insider Trading
12. “I thought we were freakin’ geniuses”: Deceptive Financial Structures
13. “You couldn’t stop because you would wreck everything”: The Ponzi Scheme
14. “When I look back, it wasn’t as if I couldn’t have said no”: Bernie Madoff
Conclusion: Toward Greater Humility
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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