How They Got Away With It

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Roots of the Crisis
1. Wall Street: Crime Never Sleeps
David O. Freidrichs
2. The Logics of Finance: Abuse of Power and Systemic Crisis
Saskia Sassen
3. America's Ponzi Culture
Susan Will
4. Bernie Madoff
Jock Young
Part II: Enablers of Fraud
5. Unaccountable External Auditors and Their Role in the Economic Meltdown
Gilbert Geis
6. And Some with a Fountain Pen: Mortgage Fraud Subprime Bubble
Harold C. Barnett
7. Generating the Alpha Return: How Ponzi Schemes Lure the Unwary in an Unregulated Market
David Shapiro
Part III: Perverted Justice
8. The Technological Advantages of Stock Market Traders
Laureen Snider
9. Why CEOs Are Able to Loot with Impunity -- and Why It Matters
William K. Black
10. The Façade of Enforcement: Goldman Sachs the Politics of Blame
Justin O'Brien
Part IV: Perspectives from Afar
11. Reappraising Regulation: The Politics of "Regulatory Retreat" in the United Kingdom
Steve Tombs and David Whyte
12. How They Still Try to Get Away with It: Crime in the Dutch Real Estate Sector Before and After the Crisis
Hans Nelen and Luuk Ritzen
13. Economic and Financial Criminality in Portugal
Rita Faria
14. Greece "For Sale": Casino Economy and State-Corporate Crime
Sophia Vidali
15. Financial Fraud in China: A Structural Examination of Law and Law Enforcement
Hongming Cheng
Epilogue Can They Still Get Away with It?
Appendix A Short (Global) History of Financial Meltdowns
Compiled by Alex Holden
Contributors
Index