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Going off the Rails: Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy

ISBN: 978-0-470-85314-6
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256 pages
March 2003
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About the author vii

Preface ix

Part 1 IMPATIENT CAPITAL 1

1 The turn of the global tide 3

2 The Third World ghetto 25

3 Dr Pangloss comes to Wall Street 53

4 Europe pulls up a drawbridge 81

Part 2 DOUBLE STANDARDS 107

5 Uncreative destruction 109

6 The just-in-time CEO 137

7 Enron, alas 161

Part 3 THE LIMITS OF CONVERGENCE 183

8 Apocalypse later 185

9 The semi-detached samurai 201

Part 4 BEYOND SHAREHOLDER VALUE 217

10 The legitimacy crisis 219

11 Putting the world to rights 243

Index 275

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