Telling the Story in Books and Movies
Business Ethics and Other Oxymorons
By FLOYD NORRIS
Published: April 20, 2003, Sunday NY Times Books
POWER FAILURE
The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron.
By Mimi Swartz with Sherron Watkins.
THERE is a faddish aspect to America´s recent fascination with business scandals. Enron was an amazing tale of hubris, greed, corruption and incompetence. Still, the impact of its collapse would have been far smaller a couple of years earlier, when the stock market was still booming. But just as “Chicago,” with its cynical worldview, was overshadowed by cheerier fare in 1975 and a big hit a quarter of a century later, Enron came after investors had lost a lot of money and were eager for someone to blame. It didn´t hurt that the company was already a pariah in California, blamed for profiteering in the energy crisis there.
With director Alex Gibney at the Sundance Film Festival premier of his documentary film on Enron.
Signing copies of Power Failure, The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron