THE GREEDSTERS: When Enough Is Never Enough analyzes the essence of greed throughout the centuries and in modern American business culture. From small scams to billion-dollar Ponzi schemes, from insolvent local lenders to mega-bank bailouts, from fraud on Main Street to the collapse of global corporations-the greedy are preying on us from every business sector. Author Richard G. Gray, Sr. counsels us to return to sound business principles based on integrity and urges us to produce again actual goods and services that provide jobs, income and security for our country.

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Check out www.privateerbook.com. Privateer is the untold story of MAXIMUS, the largest social welfare privatization firm in America. Find out how a one-person startup evolved into a powerful New York Stock Exchange company that challenged government labor unions and forever changed the way entitlement programs are managed. The book is written for entrepreneurs building a business, politicians and and government officials seeking reform, citizens concerned with government entitlement programs, and academicians teaching business and public administration. The book presents lessons learned in the real world of government contracting, explaining how MAXIMUS survived intense competition, highly political environments, and hostile government unions to achieve success. MAXIMUS grew at the astonishing rate of 36.5% over a 29 year period, each year earning a profit and never going into debt. Learn how numerous stall points on the growth curve were overcome to achieve rapid growth. The company has managed health and welfare programs throughout the US as well as England, Canada, and Australia. MAXIMUS staff have replaced thousands of government workers to provide more efficient, effective and compassionate services to people in need. Today MAXIMUS is a mid cap stock with some 9,000 employees worldwide.

A former hedge fund worker takes an ethnographic approach to Wall Street to expose who wins, who loses, and why inequality endures. Who do you think of when you imagine a hedge fund manager? A greedy fraudster, a visionary entrepreneur, a wolf of Wall Street? These tropes capture the public imagination of a successful hedge fund manager. But behind the designer suits, helicopter commutes, and illicit pursuits are the everyday stories of people who work in the hedge fund industry-many of whom don't realize they fall within the 1 percent that drives the divide between the richest and the rest. With Hedged Out, sociologist and former hedge fund analyst Megan Tobias Neely gives readers an outsider's insider perspective on Wall Street and its enduring culture of inequality. Hedged Out dives into the upper echelons of Wall Street, where elite white masculinity is the standard measure for the capacity to manage risk and insecurity. Facing an unpredictable and risky stock market, hedge fund workers protect their interests by working long hours and building tight-knit networks with people who look and behave like them. Using ethnographic vignettes and her own industry experience, Neely showcases the voices of managers and other workers to illustrate how this industry of politically mobilized elites excludes people on the basis of race, class, and gender. Neely shows how this system of elite power and privilege not only sustains itself but builds over time as the beneficiaries concentrate their resources. Hedged Out explains why the hedge fund industry generates extreme wealth, why mostly white men benefit, and why reforming Wall Street will create a more equal society.

Take a critical view of the institutions that affect our everyday lives with this extended essay. The most important of these is the modern-day corporation, which continues to resist social control despite an ability to adapt to the environment like no other entity in human history.

Corporations continue to explode with power, and religious, educational, and governmental organizations are looking to them as examples. An increasing number of entities are learning how to conduct themselves by looking at their corporate counterparts, and, as a result, they're no longer fulfilling their true purposes.

Author Francis X. Healy Jr. examines the implications of these disturbing developments. Discover why institutions continue to miss expectations, why society suffers as a result of corporate models, and how money and power interact in problematic ways.

The pursuit of money and power is stifling the true purposes of institutions with honorable objectives. Many groups that once carried at least a facade of being above it all are now stuck in the moneypower continuum; if something doesn't change soon, the consequences will be devastating.