Her Rogue Economics, (Seven Stories Press) shows how, in this age of globalization, most businesses have wriggled free of what regulations there were and often operate in a shadow system where the line between illegality and legality blurs and devious practices evade accountability and transparency.
It revealed espionage as the devious, sly, unscrupulous practice of deception and mendacity – all for Queen and country.
He shocked many in the room by discussing the railroad's track record of unsafe practices, devious behavior, and the rough ride victims will have without knowing about these expected roadblocks.
On December 3, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold an FTC oversight hearing and some may take the Federal Trade Commission to task for its use of Section 5. Before Congress jumps on that bandwagon they should recognize that Section 5 can play a critical role in attacking the devious and egregious practices of patent trolls.
Practice a devious attitude.
Hence the pressures to keep earnings high, leading some companies to adopt devious or fraudulent accounting practices.
It's also true that lenders used shady, devious, sometimes outright fraudulent practices to dupe the naïve and gullible into taking out time-bomb loans.
During hearings in the British Parliament last week, Margaret Hodge, a member of the opposition Labour Party and chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee, which oversees taxation, upbraided Matt Brittin, Google's vice president for North and Central Europe, that the company's tax practices were "devious, calculated and, in my view, unethical".
The recent stories about American business practices -- including devious tax-avoidance schemes, crooked accounting, insider trading and vast transfers of wealth from investors to executives -- could easily be stories about the Russian kleptocracy.
It was a cabal of bishops, rabbis and assorted religious enthusiasts who wrecked the Joffe bill in the Lords through a devious putsch that broke Lords' procedural practice, denying the bill a Commons debate.
