insider trading

(noun)

Buying or selling securities of a publicly-held company by a person who has privileged access to information concerning the company's financial condition or plans.

Related Terms

Examples of insider trading in the following topics:

  • White-Collar Crime

    • One well-known insider trading case in the United States is the ImClone stock trading case.
    • White-collar crime, is similar to corporate crime, because white-collar employees are more likely to commit fraud, bribery, ponzi schemes, insider trading, embezzlement, cyber crime, copyright infringement, money laundering, identity theft, and forgery .
    • Insider trading, the trading of stock by someone with access to publicly unavailable information, is a type of fraud.
    • One well-known insider trading case in the United States is the ImClone stock trading case.

  • Theories of Deviance

  • Intelligence and Inequality

    • Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein explored how the cultural capital of the dominant classes has been viewed throughout history as the "most legitimate knowledge. " How schools choose the content and organization of curriculum and instructional practices connects scholastic knowledge to dynamics of class, gender, and race both outside and inside our institutions of education.
    • Educational capital refers to educational goods that are converted into commodities to be bought, sold, withheld, traded, consumed, and profited from in the educational system.

  • Trade Blocs and Common Markets

    • A trade bloc is an agreement where regional barriers to trade are reduced or eliminated among the participating states.
    • The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an example of a formal trade bloc.
    • Trade blocs can be stand-alone agreements between several states, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or part of a regional organization, such as the European Union.
    • However, entering a trade bloc also strengthens ties between member parties.
    • For better or for worse, trade blocs are prevalent.

  • Global Trade: Inequalities and Conflict

    • Global trade (exchange across international borders) has increased with better transportation and governments adopting free trade.
    • The United States is party to many trade agreements, but one of the best known is the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
    • Like other free trade agreements, NAFTA promotes free trade among members, which include the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
    • But as trade has become more global and more complex, trade negotiations have expanded to include more countries.
    • Analyze the impact of global trade on society and industry, ranging from mercantilism to free trade orientation

  • Oligarchy

    • Whites had access to virtually all the educational and trade opportunities, and they proceeded to deny this to the black majority.
    • One example of this is a corporate oligarchy, or corporatocracy—a system in which power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals, sometimes from a small group of educational institutions, or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities, lobbyists that act in complicity with, or at the whim of the oligarchy, often with little or no regard for constitutionally protected prerogative.

  • Preindustrial Cities

    • While ancient cities may have arisen organically as trading centers, preindustrial cities evolved to become well defined political units, like today's states.
    • Those that did often benefited from trade routes—in the early modern era, larger capital cities benefited from new trade routes and grew even larger.
    • While the city-states, or poleis, of the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea languished from the 16th century, Europe's larger capitals benefited from the growth of commerce following the emergence of an Atlantic trade.
    • Examine the growth of preindustrial cities as political units, as well as how trade routes allowed certain cities to expand and grow

  • Using computers

    • Suppose, for a simple example, we had information about trade-flows of 50 different commodities (e.g. coffee, sugar, tea, copper, bauxite) among the 170 or so nations of the world system in a given year.
    • A social scientist might be interested in whether the "structures" of trade in mineral products are more similar to one another than, the structure of trade in mineral products are to vegetable products.

  • Mexico's Economy

    • Some social scientists have found that poorly-compensated Mexican farm laborers are made to work under potentially unsafe conditions to meet the demand for produce in wealthier trading nations, such as the United States.
    • If substantiated, this would be evidence that international trade has not improved the standard of living for all Mexicans..
    • Trade liberalization continued after that, with several free trade agreements with Latin American and European countries, Japan, and Israel signed during former President Vincente Fox's leadership (2000-2006).
    • Thus, Mexico became one of the most open countries in the world to trade, and the economic base shifted accordingly to exports and imports .
    • Since liberalizing its trade policies beginning in the 1980s, Mexico has entered into Free Trade Agreements with many countries.

  • Lenski's Synthesis

    • The crops they produce are surplus goods, traded for economic gain.
    • There was little trading between the groups, and there was not much inequality between groups because everyone possessed basically the same goods as everyone else.
    • Groups traded these surplus goods with each other, and trade led to inequality because some people accumulated more possessions than others.