Books like Infectious Greed by Frank Partnoy

A candid, semi‑autobiographical look at 1980s Wall Street, following Michael Lewis from Princeton art history student to bond salesman at Salomon Brothers, exposing the culture of greed, humor, and intense competition that defined the era.

A self‑taught stock trader chronicles the rise and fall of a popular New York brokerage career, revealing insider tactics and the hard lessons learned in trading himself.

Jordan Belfort’s memoir recounts his rise as the charismatic CEO of Stratton Oakmont, the 1990s brokerage that became a symbol of Wall Street excess, and his eventual downfall under SEC and FBI scrutiny.

Henry Clews’s memoir gives an inside view of 19th‑century Wall Street, detailing market speculation, political intrigue, and his role in dismantling the Tweed Ring.

F.I.A.S.C.O. is an insider's diary, a shocking education in the jungle of high finance in the 1990s from New York to Tokyo. It tracks the progress of a young Morgan Stanley salesman as he learns the ropes of this sophisticated jungle, where billions of dollars are lost in the creation and trading of securities so unlikely and so complicated that almost nobody - certainly not the unwary or undereducated buyer - understands them. And some of that money, whether you know it or not, may be yours. Frank Partnoy's journey is partly comical, and full of incredible characters, but what he learns should stir fear in anyone who owns mutual funds, stocks, or even insurance. Partnoy's colleagues sharpen their killer instincts at an annual drunken skeet-shooting competition called F.I.A.S.C.O., the Fixed Income Annual Sporting Clays Outing. Against well-trained derivatives salesmen, buyers don't face much better odds than a clay pigeon, and the actual fiascoes involve billions of dollars of well-publicized losses at Orange County, Barings, Procter & Gamble, and many others. In 1994, when the author attended F.I.A.S.C.O., and when the first big derivatives losses hit, the rallying cry at Morgan Stanley should have struck fear into the heart of any investor: "There's blood in the water. Let's go kill someone." Partnoy's story shows how Morgan Stanley's sales force put that advice to work.

"Corporate Fraud Handbook provides an insider's look into the most prevalent fraud schemes used by employees, owners, managers, and executives. Each scheme is illustrated with real-life case studies submitted to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) by certified fraud examiners who aided in the case resolutions."--BOOK JACKET.