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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 35–50.
Published: 01 December 2003
...David M. Brennan Duke University Press 2003 Enron and Failed Futures POLICY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE WAKE OF ENRON’S COLLAPSE Bankruptcies...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 1–7.
Published: 01 December 2003
... relevant to our “real” national concerns. Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, and ImClone could have been relegated to the arcane workings of business. Yet the question of corruption touches every fiber of contemporary sociopolitical life, linking “domestic” and “for- eign” affairs in multiple ways...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 67–80.
Published: 01 June 2004
... knowledge . Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Freire, Paolo. 1972 . Pedagogy of the oppressed . Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin. Ghoshal, Sumantra. 2003 . Business schools share the blame for Enron. Financial Times , 17 July, 21 , 33. Gordon, Robert, and James Howell. 1959 . Higher education...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): np.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of Corruption, or Rules of Separation and Illusions of Purity in Bourgeois Societies Peter Bratsis 9 Enron and Failed Futures: Policy and Corporate Governance in the Wake of Enron’s Collapse David M. Brennan 35 Cloning Scapegoats: Martha Stewart Does Insider Trading Nancy Shaw 51 “I Don’t...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 51–67.
Published: 01 December 2003
... with the breaking of the accounting scandals that have led to the fall of Enron, Arthur Anderson, and telecommunication com- panies such as WorldCom. In the case of fiscal emergency, scapegoating has not involved making an example out of the alien through brutal pun- ishments. Rather, discipline and punishment...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 25–65.
Published: 01 December 2006
... to a risky present as something more than a monetary one, it might be useful to turn to the lessons proffered by the failure of Enron.28 Stability is precisely why Enron was nominalized as a debacle in the United States...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 105–115.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and minds of young Americans to the fantasy that their interests are at one with those of Enron and WorldCom executives. Such lessons are reinforced within the multiplying classrooms devoted to promoting enterprise, marginalizing labor, submerging the realities of social-class disparity...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 167–173.
Published: 01 June 2009
... (one of the engineers of the October 2008 bailout) announced that economic regulation since Enron may have gone too far and that lawmakers must “strike the right balance between investor protection and market competitiveness”12 by relying on principles rather than strict rules...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (3 (72)): 1–8.
Published: 01 September 2002
... was a war, it was a war of excision, not of con- quest, where territory was to be neutralized rather than appropriated. And if this is Bush’s dog wagging, it is not only to displace blame for the recession (or for Enron) but also to further dispossess its own domestic victims. In meticulously...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (2 (79)): 1–11.
Published: 01 June 2004
... was to precipitate the market failure made famous by the likes of Enron and World- Com, whose auditors lacked the practical competencies needed to save their clients from their own malfeasance. This is also a study of how ideas promulgated...
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2004
... in the mid-90s surrounding Enron in Maharashtra in which the American company bribed government offi cials to the tune of about $20 million in order to obtain contracts for its projects. Amitava Kumar has referred...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 127–138.
Published: 01 December 2003
... free-market capitalism has made our lives a gamble. Rocked by accounting scandals, Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco have collapsed and with them the futures of many middle-class Americans. Like a bad hand in poker, our 401(k) plans have folded...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford Univer- sity Press, 2005); Doug Henwood, Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (London: Verso, 1998); Vijay Prashad, Fat Cats and Running Dogs: The Enron Stage of Capital- ism (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2003); Naomi Klein, The Shock Doc...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (4 (77)): 69–97.
Published: 01 December 2003
... as vigorously as they are Kenneth Lay, former CEO of the now infamous Enron Corpora- tion, or the free-spending Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco, the giant industrial conglomerate? In the current post-dot-com...
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 59–83.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of financial markets in a 2002 article entitled, notably, “The Betrayal of Cap- italism”—not the betrayal of justice, or employees, or even shareholders, but of capitalism: “Enron’s failure was a failure of particular people and institutions but it was above all, part of a general failure to maintain...