Crime/Fraud books and eBooksFeatured BooksRogue TraderNick Leeson - His Own Amazing Storyby Nick Leeson Pressure, pace, error: ROGUE TRADER grippingly tells the inside story of how the greatest gamble ever made rocked the City of London to its foundations. Crackling with tension, in a narrative as crisp as any thriller, Nick Leeson's autobiographical account reveals how he 'lost' GBP800 millions as General Manager of Baring Futures Singapore through foolhardy speculations on behalf of his employer, Barings Brothers - the world's first merchant bank. As Leeson's audacity escalated, so did his losse... The Economics of Organised Crimeby Gianluca Fiorentini (Editor)Sam Peltzman (Editor) This is the first book to use economic theory in the analysis of all the different aspects of organised crime: the origins, the internal organisation, market behaviour and deterrence policies. The theory of rent-seeking is adopted to help understand the origin of criminal organisations from a state of anarchy, while modern industrial organisation theory is used to explain the design of internal rules in the organised crime sector. The market behaviour of organised crime is analysed taking into a... View all Crime/Fraud books Popular Crime/Fraud books and eBooks in the last 24 hoursView all Crime/Fraud titles |
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