Table of Contents
Introduction to the Paperback Edition: Why We Do It vii
Prologue Managing in the Gray 1
Part I The Struggle to Criminalize
1 "Not…bucket-shop operators, dead-beats, and fly-by-night swindlers": Pillars of the Community 13
2 "Guys…don't drop out of windows for no reason": Creating the White-Collar Criminal 33
Part II Nature or Nurture? Reasoning or Intuition?
3 "Inherently inferior organisms": Bad People Making Bad Decisions 47
4 "I thought it was all going to pass": A Press Release with Consequences 65
5 "If you don't take it then you will regret it forever": The Triumph of Reason 81
6 "I never once thought of the costs versus rewards": Intuitive Decisions 99
7 "I never felt that I was doing anything wrong": Overlooking Harm 115
8 "If there was something wrong with this transaction, wouldn't people have told me?": The Difficulty of Being Good 131
Part III The Business of Malfeasance
9 "You can't make the argument that the public was harmed by anything I did": Misleading Disclosure 165
10 "Unfortunately, the world is not black and white": Financial Reporting Fraud 175
11 "You go from just being on top of the world": Insider Trading 201
12 "I thought we were freakin' geniuses": Deceptive Financial Structures 227
13 "You couldn't stop because YOU would wreck everything": The Ponzi Scheme 257
14 "When I look back, it wasn't as if I couldn't have said no": Bernie Madoff 287
Conclusion Toward Greater Humility 309
Acknowledgments 331
Illustration Credits 337
Notes 339
Bibliography 397
Index 435