Andrew Sheng

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Sheng, Andrew (2009), From Asian to global financial crisis: an Asian regulator's view of unfettered finance in the 1990s and 2000s, Cambridge University Press, ISBN   978-0-521-13415-6

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  • "Why should a financial engineer be paid four to a hundred times more than a real engineer? A real engineer builds bridges. A financial engineer builds dreams and, when those dreams turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it." Andrew Sheng, in an interview for the 2010 financial industry documentary Inside Job . [7]

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Andrew Sheng
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