All 6 Uses of
white-collar crime
in
Freakonomics
- 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
Definition:
crimes performed by white collar employees such as fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, and forgery