Deals of the Century: Wall Street, Mergers, and the Making of Modern America

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-471-73603-5
Verlag: WILEY

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Geisst, Charles R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Chapter One. Building the Infrastructure.
Chapter Two. Driving to the Store.
Chapter Three. Power Plays and Conspiracy Theories.
Chapter Four. Roll Over, Euclid.
Chapter Five. Visigoths versus the Legions.
Chapter Six. Spawned by Deregulation.
Chapter Seven. Old Bedfellows.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Geisst is the author of thirteen books, including The Last Partnerships: Inside the Great Wall Street Money Dynasties (McGraw Hill, 2001), Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates (Oxford University Press, 2000), 100 Years of Wall Street (an illustrated history, McGraw-Hill, 1999), and Wall Street: A History (Oxford University Press, 1997). Wall Street: A History was widely reviewed and was on the New York Times Business Bestseller List for three months and was a selection of the History Book Club and the Book of the Month Club International.
From 1972-75, Geisst taught political science in an open admissions environment in the City University of New York before taking a job on Wall Street. Subsequently, he worked as a capital markets analyst and investment banker at several investment banks in the City of London. Since 1985 he has taught finance at Manhattan College where he is presently a professor of finance. He was named the college's first Louis F. Capalbo Chair in Business in 1993. Consulting assignments in financial markets have been with Cazenove & Co., S.G. Warburg & Co., the Hudson Institute, and J.P. Morgan & Co. Listed in Who's Who and a frequent participant in Renaissance Weekend, he has published professional and trade articles in magazines and journals such as the International Herald Tribune, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Newsday and Euromoney.