The epic battle of the fascinating, flawed figures behind America's deal culture and their fight over who controls and who benefits from the immense wealth of American corporations. Bloodsport is the story of how the mania for corporate deals and mergers all began. The riveting tale of how power lawyers Joe Flom and Marty Lipton, major Wall Street players Felix Rohatyn and Bruce Wasserstein, prominent jurists, and shrewd ideologues in academic garb provided the intellectual firepower, creativity, and energy that drove the corporate elite into a less cozy, Hobbesian world.With total dollar volume in the trillions, the zeal for the deal continues unabated to this day. Underpinning this explosion in mergers and acquisitions,including hostile takeovers,are four questions that radically disrupted corporate ownership in the 1970s, whose force remains undiminished:Are shareholders the sole owners" of corporations and the legitimate source of power?Should control be exercised by autonomous CEOs or is their assumption of power illegitimate and inefficient?Is the primary purpose of the corporation to generate jobs and create prosperity for the masses and the nation?Or is it simply to maximize the wealth of shareholders?This battle of ideas became the bloodsport" of American business. It set in motion the deal-making culture that led to the financialization of the economy and it is the backstory to ongoing debates over competitiveness, job losses, inequality, stratospheric executive pay, and who owns" America's corporations.

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.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.

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.

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.

The story of Tasmania's most controversial forestry giant, the corruption that gave it power and the forces that brought it down. At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and was its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley was central to its expansion plans. Gunns' collapse in 2012 was a major national news story, as was the arrest of its CEO for insider trading. Quentin Beresford illuminates for the first time the dark corners of the Gunns empire and how it was embedded in an anti-democratic and corrupt system of power supported by both main parties, business and unions. Simmering opposition to Gunns and all it stood for ramped up into an environmental campaign not seen since the Franklin Dam protests. Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time.