Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
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Author: Bethany McLean, Peter ElkindEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown)
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Published: 2003-10-13
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 464
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Book Review: A very detailed story ...
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a good book to read after a postgraduate course in Accounting. We all know the story, you can watch the documentary about it, but to know all the details simply worths the time, mainly because you start to learn about how the energy trading business works, how is the life of most high ranked executives and most importantly, how all this scam was executed. And for sure this is a book with several lessons, with executives with a very mediocre life (money is not everything), with a market giving the blind eye to the situation and, in my opinion, a case that shows how vulnerable is the pension system in the United States. Seems that the smartest guy in the room was Lou Pai by the way. Finally, I would not recommend this book to people with depression issues -- life can be better than this.
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