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crimes performed by white collar employees such as fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, and forgery
- As it happens, Feldman's accidental study provides a window onto a form of cheating that has long stymied academics: white-collar crime.p. 45.5
- Yes, shorting the bagel man is white-collar crime, writ however small.p. 45.5
- It might seem ludicrous to address as large and intractable a problem as white-collar crime through the life of a bagel man.p. 45.6
- Despite all the attention paid to rogue companies like Enron, academics know very little about the practicalities of white-collar crime.p. 45.7
- A key fact of white-collar crime is that we hear about only the very slim fraction of people who are caught cheating.p. 45.7
- But white-collar crime presents no obvious victim.p. 46.1
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