Empire of the Sun: An Economic Interpretation of Enron's Energy Business

Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 470, February 2003

19 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2013

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Steve H. Hanke

Johns Hopkins University - Department of Economics

Christopher L. Culp

Johns Hopkins University - Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and Study of Business Enterprise; Swiss Finance Institute; Compass Lexecon; Financial Economics Consulting, Inc.

Date Written: 2003

Abstract

The collapse of Enron Corporation has been portrayed as the result of accounting fraud and greed. Not everything that Enron did, however, was wrong or fraudulent. Fraud contributed to the timing of Enron's failure but was not the root cause of that failure. In analyzing Enron, it is critically important to distinguish what Enron did wrong from what it did right.

Keywords: Steve Hanke, Cato Institute, Enron, Corporation, Collapse

Suggested Citation

Hanke, Steve H. and Culp, Christopher L., Empire of the Sun: An Economic Interpretation of Enron's Energy Business (2003). Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 470, February 2003, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2204697

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