History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff

David E. Y. Sarna

Wiley, Jul 30, 2010 - Business & Economics - 336 pages

Praise for HISTORY OF GREED"David Sarna is a visionary technologist. He is also a sophisticated investor and financier. He has written a readable, comprehensive, fascinating, and well-researched book that explores troublesome aspects of the financial system in a way only an experienced insider could." -Jay N. Goldberg, Senior Managing Director, Hudson Ventures"A comprehensive review of what has happened to us in our financial markets over and over and over and over again. It's an important history, written with wit and delivered with wisdom. Undoubtedly, History of Greed will become required reading for anyone serious about understanding the capital markets." -Frederick L. Gorsetman, Founder and Managing Member, Oxbridge Financial Group, LLC400 years of financial fraud in the makingFrom the earliest financial scams of the seventeenth century, through the headline-grabbing Wall Street scandals of our times, History of Greed provides a comprehensive history of financial fraud. In it, David E. Y. Sarna exposes the true and often riveting stories of how both naīve and sophisticated investors alike were fooled by unscrupulous entrepreneurs, lawyers, hedge fund managers, CPAs, Texas billionaires, political fundraisers, music managers, financial advisers, and even former Mossad agents. From the people behind the financial fraud and how they did it to why people continually fall prey to scam artists, Sarna outlines what actions you can take today to protect yourself from becoming the victim of tomorrow's "too good to be true" investment opportunity. History of Greed details how markets are manipulated, books are cooked, Ponzi schemes are hatched, and how the government only closes the barn door once the cows have all escaped.

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Review: History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff

User Review  - Aloke - Goodreads

History of Greed narrates the financial scams and tries to understand the human tendencies and the reasoning along with the legal framework. This book is an easy read for a complicated topic like ...

Review: History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff

User Review  - Walter Herrick - Goodreads

Pretty good. a little hard to follow at times because I was unfamiliar with a few concepts, but interesting.

About the author

David E. Y. Sarna is a serial entrepreneur who founded three companies, sold one, and successfully took two public. He is also a technologist and a writer. Mr. Sarna is also the creator of several popular blogs, including GreedWatcher.comSM, GoogleGazer.comSM, and EyeOnTheCloud.comSM. He has authored four books, written over 120 articles, was a founding regional director of the Microsoft Developers Network, and is a popular and award-winning speaker with multiple national television appearances on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC.

Bibliographic information

• Title: History of Greed: Financial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff
• Author: David E. Y. Sarna
• Contributor: Andrew Malik
• Publisher: Wiley, 2010
• ISBN: 0470877693, 9780470877692
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Finance; Law / Criminal Law / General; Psychology / Personality; True Crime / White Collar Crime