Outsourcing : organised money and disabled government -- Outsourcing, blame-shifting and major fiascos -- Unjustifiable profit-taking on mundane contracts -- Undisciplined outsourcing conglomerates -- Outsourcing specialists and the gaming of limited liability

This working paper is about the Apple Inc Business Model and how, in a financialized world, the success of this business model is represented in the form of what we term financial point values. Our argument is that there is a tendency to promote specific point valuation multiples as measures of...