Bernie Madoff and the crisis : the public trial of capitalism

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Label

Bernie Madoff and the crisis : the public trial of capitalism

Title remainder

the public trial of capitalism

Statement of responsibility

Colleen P. Eren

Creator

• Eren, Colleen P

Author

• Eren, Colleen P

Subject

• Commercial crimes -- Press coverage -- Great Britain
• Commercial crimes -- Press coverage -- United States
• Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Press coverage -- Great Britain
• Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Press coverage -- United States
• Capitalism -- Press coverage -- Great Britain
• Kapitalismus
• Madoff, Bernard L, 1938-
• Madoff, Bernard L. -- In mass media
• USA
• Kapitalanlagebetrug
• Capitalism -- Press coverage -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and estranged from his father; a woman at the center of a storm--Madoff's story was a media magnet, voraciously consumed by a justice-seeking public. Bernie Madoff and the Crisis goes beyond purely investigative accounts to examine how and why Madoff became the epicenter of public fury and titillation. Rooting her argument in critical sociology, Colleen P. Eren analyzes media coverage of this landmark case alongside original interviews with dozens of journalists and editors involved in the reportage, the SEC Director of Public Affairs, and Bernie Madoff himself. Turning the mirror back onto society, Eren locates Madoff within a broader reckoning about free market capitalism. She argues that our ideological and cultural tendencies to attribute blame to individuals--be they regulators, victims, or "monsters" like Madoff--distracts us from more systemic critiques. Bernie Madoff and the Crisis offers fresh insight into the 2008 crisis, whether we have come to terms with it, and what we have yet to gain from the case of the century -- Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

CSt/DLC

Dewey number

364.16/8092

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6692.M33

LC item number

E74 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography