TY - BOOK ID - 11339288 TI - The speculation economy : how finance triumphed over industry PY - 2008 SN - 1576756289 1282300539 1605093866 9786612300530 9781605093864 9781609944483 1609944488 9781282300538 9781576756287 9781576754009 1576754006 6612300531 PB - San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Corporations -- United States. KW - Finance -- United States. KW - Industries -- United States. KW - Speculation -- United States. KW - Corporations KW - Finance KW - Industries KW - Speculation KW - United States KW - Economic policy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11339288 AB - As the 20th century dawned there was a silent but fateful transformation in the purpose of the American economy. Finance stopped serving industry and twisted industry to serve its own ends. THE SPECULATION ECONOMY shows this reversal of economic priorities, and its sometimes-disastrous consequences, demonstrated most recently by Enron. ER -