Profit Without Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America

by Stephen Rosoff, Henry N. Pontell, Robert Tillman

Profit Without White-Collar Crime and the Looting of America seeks to elucidate a very broad white-collar crime. How broad? Its domain stretches from the small price-gouging merchant to the huge price-fixing cartel. It can breed in an antiseptic hospital or a toxic dump. It is at home on Main Street, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and countless other addresses - including, at times, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Genres: Nonfiction, Textbooks

436 pages, Hardcover

First published July 30, 1997

Reviews

[Melissa]

It isn't often a student loves a textbook but I learned a lot and have enjoyed reading the case studies presented.

[Julie]

It took me so long to read this but I'm glad I did, it was a very interesting read.

[Julie Frenchfry]

It took me so long to read this but I'm glad I did, it was a very interesting read.

[Silas]

This is a fantastic book to outrage people at the atrocities allowed by White Collar criminals. The research and detail put into explaining each and every scheme shows either extreme disgust or journalistic integrity. Probably both, actually.

[Jessie]

In this textbook, you will learn about, not one scandal, but many. The less than honest players or business people outlined come in all shapes and sizes: young and old, male and female, shy and outgoing, powerful and not so powerful, etc.

A great deal about character or lack thereof in the business world is portrayed; the culprits are people one might never suspect, simply because they are beyond suspicion.

[Steven van Doorn]

Excellent textbook in that it captured the readers interest with numerous examples of each type of fraud and crime that it describes. My only beef with this book was the shear number of examples, sometimes it seemed like the book was more interested in exposing all the nasties out there than moving on with the instruction.