- 373 pages
- English
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About this book
A public policy expert reveals how decades of deregulation and increasing inequality have fostered a culture of cheating across America.
There have always been people who cut corners, but in The Cheating Culture, David Callahan demonstrates how cheating on every level—from the highly publicized corporate scandals to Little League fraud—has risen dramatically in recent decades. He then asks the simple yet provocative questions: Why all the cheating? Why now?
Callahan pins the blame on today's dog-eat-dog economic climate. An unfettered market and unprecedented economic inequality have corroded our values and threaten the level playing field so central to American democracy itself. Through revealing interviews and extensive data analysis, Callahan takes readers on a revealing tour of cheating in America and offers a powerful argument for why it matters.
There have always been people who cut corners, but in The Cheating Culture, David Callahan demonstrates how cheating on every level—from the highly publicized corporate scandals to Little League fraud—has risen dramatically in recent decades. He then asks the simple yet provocative questions: Why all the cheating? Why now?
Callahan pins the blame on today's dog-eat-dog economic climate. An unfettered market and unprecedented economic inequality have corroded our values and threaten the level playing field so central to American democracy itself. Through revealing interviews and extensive data analysis, Callahan takes readers on a revealing tour of cheating in America and offers a powerful argument for why it matters.
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Aaron, Clarence, 247–48
Abrams, Frank, 45
accounting: cheating in, 21, 146–47
fraud at Xerox, 140–44
inadequate professional discipline in, 241
accounting firms: auditor-client relationship in, 145–46, 150
conflicts of interest in, 145–46, 149–51
Leavitt attempts to reform, 151–52
offer consulting services, 149–50
and savings and loan failures, 148
Adelphia Communications, 137
Alexander, Donald, 155, 159
Alger, Horatio, 42
Almonte, Danny: cheats in Little League, 69–72
Ambrose, Stephen: plagiarism scandal, viii, 12, 88
American Bar Association: ethical guidelines of, 36, 239
American Commonwealth, The (Bryce), 63
American Enterprise Institute: political views, 162–63
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 149
fights SEC, 151
on tax evasion, 178
American Lawyer, The, investigates billing practices, 35–36
American Medical Association: ethical guidelines of, 49–50, 54, 240
American values: Bush administration and, 293
cheating as threat to, 24–27, 275
Merton on, 172–73
social Darwinism’s effects on, 123–26
and tolerance of lawlessness, 15–17
American voting behavior: Brooks on, 171–72
Amherst College: and admissions cheating, 206, 210
Anschutz, Philip: commits fraud, 137–38
escapes prosecution, 272
Spitzer investigates, 138
Armstrong, Lance: alleged drug use by, 77–79
earnings, 77, 81–83
It’s Not About the Bike, 77
Arthur Andersen: in early accounting scandals, 146–47
conflicts of interest, 149
and corporate ethics, 283
Enron and, 152
and Lincoln Savings and Loan failure, 148
Aspen Institute, 290
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, 182
and white-collar crime, 237–38
Association of Advanced Collegiate Schools of Business, 289–90
AstraZeneca, 247
ATM fraud: at Municipal Credit Union, 1–3, 6–8, 119
Audio Home Recording Act, 187
automobile mechanics: fraud by, 28–33, 41...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- “Everybody Does It”
- Cheating in a Bottom-line Economy
- Whatever It Takes
- A Question of Character
- Temptation Nation
- Trickle-down Corruption
- Cheating from the Starting Line
- Crime and No Punishment
- Dodging Brazil
- Sources
- Endnotes
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH