Just Who's in Charge Here?

摘要

A look around the carnage of American business ― hotshot CEOs doing perp walks, stock prices plummeting, massive bankruptcies, Martha Stewart an alleged criminal mastermind-evokes for people of a certain generation a line from a Talking Heads song: "And you may ask yourself, 'Well, how did I get here?" After all, things seemed to be going so well. Three new books slice off pieces of the Heads' existential lament, using history and sociology to expose the beams that hold up the roller coaster of American capitalism.