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Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime
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15/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Jennifer Taub
Publisher:
Viking
Date:
September 29, 2020
Big Dirty Money details the scandalously common and concrete ways that ordinary Americans suffer when the well-heeled use white collar crime to gain and sustain wealth, social status, and political influence.
What The Reviewers Say
Donald Trump is not the ostensible subject of Big Dirty Money, Jennifer Taub’s polemic against America’s failure to curb the destructive criminal tendencies of the very rich. Yet the president, his friends and former Trump campaign and administration officials parade through these pages.
'White collar crime, like cancer or influenza, comes in many forms,' legal scholar Jennifer Taub writes in her blood-boiling new book, Big Dirty Money, where she examines white-collar crime in America and the ensemble of forces that enable it ...At times, her prose gets bogged down by acronyms and dense legal decisions, but Taub mercifully steps in with quippy analysis.
Taub offers a smart overview of white collar crime, a term coined in 1939 by sociologist Edwin Sutherland. She notes that in eras when 'the people' have more influence and control, corporate leaders are held responsible. In the Progressive Era, for instance. In our own time—the Trump era—not so much.
A scathing indictment of white-collar crime and its unpunished practitioners.
