Dan Krier is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Iowa State University.

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Acknowledgments

1. The Speculative Management of Corporate Restructuring: Introduction and Overview

2. Transactional Finance in Late-Twentieth-Century America

3. Social Intermediaries and the Wave of Internal Corporate Restructuring in the Late Twentieth Century

4. Financial Accounting as a Social Intermediary

5. Social Intermediation, Corporate Governance, and Financial Markets

6. The Rise of Corporate Restructuring, 1984¿1990

7. The Reign of Restructuring, 1991¿1993

8. The Decline and Delegitimation of Restructuring, 1994¿1997

9. The Speculative Management of Corporate Value: Summary and Conclusions

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