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作者： Robert Bryce著
出 版 社： Oxford University Press USA
出版时间： 2002-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 394印刷时间： 2002/10/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781586481384包装： 精装内容简介
Finally, an Enron book that actually explains what happened at Enron. Bryce, an Austin, Tex., journalist familiar with the energy and telecommunications industries, offers a colorful account of the most spectacular corporate self-destruction in American history. Tracing the company's history, he shows how deal-focused executives like CEO Jeff Skilling transformed a fiscally responsible energy supplier into an out-of-control trading firm. He describes risky practices, like "mark-to-market" accounting and shell corporations, in clear, concise language that doesn't confuse readers who don't have MBAs. The book relies heavily on good ol' boy colloquialisms (e.g., "If [George W.] Bush had been any more simpatico to Enron, he could've been charged with a misdemeanor under the state of Texas' buggery laws") but backs up every unusual assertion, revealing, for example, connections between Bush and Enron going back to the mid-1980s. Not that Democrats were innocent; there's also extensive coverage on what Enron got from government agencies during the Clinton administration. While the emphasis on sexual misconduct among the top brass and its correlation to the financial shenanigans is arguable, Bryce makes a reasonable case for former chairman Ken Lay's unwillingness to control his staff's behavior-and inability to lead by example. This isn't just the first book to make sense out of the debacle; it's a vivid cautionary tale about the consequences of the lurid excesses-personal and professional-of the recently ended economic bubble, where corporations and their employees were so obsessed with acquiring wealth they became "dumber than a box of hammers" about making-and saving-money.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
作者简介：
Over the past sixteen years，Robert Bryce has written for a panoply 0f now-dead publica-tions including TaIk magazine and the TuIsa 7-ribufle．He’S even written for a few stilI publishing，including The New York times,The Guardian，Austin Chronicle，and Texas Observer．Bryce has been writing about En ron’S political activities since 1997 and covered the firm'S felecommunications and e-commerce ventu res th roughout 2001．
Despite yea rs 0f muckraking，he has won no awards worth mentioning．An apia rist．he lives in Austin with his wife，three child ren，and a hyperactive bi rd dog rlamed Biscuit．
目录
Author's Note
Introduction by Molly Ivins
1The Job Fair
2John Henry Kirby and the Roots of Enron
3Buy or Be Bought
4The Merger
5The Lays Move to River Oaks
6The Valhalla Fiasco
7"The Smartest Son of a Bitch I've Ever Met"
8Banking on the Gas Bank
9Mark-to-Market Account-a-Rama
10Enron Goes International: Teesside
11The Big Shot Buying Binge
12"Kenny Boy"
13The Dabhol Debacle
14OPIC: Sweet Subsidies
15A Kinder, Gentler Enron
16The Reign of Skilling
17"A Pit of Vipers"
18Cash Flow Problems, Part1
19Chewco: The 3-Percent Solution
20Sexcapades
21The Family Lay
22LJM1
23Buying Off the Board
24The Deal Diva
25Enron's Waterworld
26Hyping the Bandwidth Bubble
27Andy Fastow Arrives... in River Oaks
28Strippers and Stock Options
29Casino Enron: Cash Flow Problems, Part 2
30LJM2
31The Big Five Versus the SEC
32Derivatives Hocus-Pocus
33Ken Rice: Missing in Action
34Analysts Who Think
35Air Enron
36Skilling Says a Bad Word
37George W. to the Rescue, Part1
38Broadband Blues
39Sleepless in Houston: Cash Flow Problems, Part 3
40Sherron Watkins Saves Her Own Ass
41George W. to the Rescue, Part2
42You Gotta Have Art
43Revenge of the Raptors
44"An Outstanding Job as CFO"
45Fastow Goes Bye-Bye
46Posh PJ's
47Greenspan Gets the Enron Prize
48One Restatement Too Many
49The Downgrade
50The Bankruptcy
51Epilogue: "Salvation Armani"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
