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

Plender, John

 
9780470853146: Going off the Rails: Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 047085314X ISBN 13: 9780470853146
Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

The capitalist model was developed in the 19th century and recent events have shown the difficulties of adapting this to the demands of the 21st century, in which human and social capital are of far greater importance than physical capital. In Going off the Rails, John Plender shows how corporate scandals, inflated boardroom pay, corporate governance disciplines and outmoded accountancy conventions have stretched the Anglo-American model to its limit and what the effects of this might be on globalisation and the capital markets.

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About the Author

John Plender is a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times and a regular current affairs broadcaster for the BBC and Channel Four. John has served on the UK government's Company Law Review steering group, and consults on corporate governance for the International Finance Corporation, the private sector lending and investing arm of the World Bank. In 1994 John Plender received the Wincott Award, Britain's premier prize for financial journalism.

From the Back Cover

In this thought-provoking work, writer and journalist John Plender explores the model of capitalism advocated by English-speaking countries and asks the following pertinent questions:
* Why are developing countries financing the world's richest economy, instead of the other way round?

* How have the markets come to appear so unstable?

* What is causing the erosion of the wealth creation process? and

* Is the conventional view of this model actually correct?
The capitalist model was developed in the 19th century and recent events have shown the difficulties of adapting this to the demands of the 21st century, in which human and social capital are of far greater importance than physical capital. In Going off the Rails, John Plender shows how corporate scandals, inflated boardroom pay, corporate governance disciplines and outmoded accountancy conventions have stretched the Anglo-American model to its limit and what the effects of this might be on globalisation and the capital markets.

From the Inside Flap

In this thought-provoking work, writer and journalist John Plender explores the model of capitalism advocated by English-speaking countries and asks the following pertinent questions:
* Why are developing countries financing the world's richest economy, instead of the other way round?

* How have the markets come to appear so unstable?

* What is causing the erosion of the wealth creation process? and

* Is the conventional view of this model actually correct?
The capitalist model was developed in the 19th century and recent events have shown the difficulties of adapting this to the demands of the 21st century, in which human and social capital are of far greater importance than physical capital. In Going off the Rails, John Plender shows how corporate scandals, inflated boardroom pay, corporate governance disciplines and outmoded accountancy conventions have stretched the Anglo-American model to its limit and what the effects of this might be on globalisation and the capital markets.

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Publisher
Wiley
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
047085314X
ISBN 13 
9780470853146
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304