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Fraud An American History from Barnum to Madoff 1st Edition by Edward Balleisen ISBN 9780691164557 069116455X

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Author(s): Balleisen, Edward J.

ISBN(s): 9780691164557, 069116455X

Edition: 1

File Details: EPUB, 6.12 MB

Year: 2017

Language: English

SKU: EB-55342064 Category: History - American Studies Tags: Balleisen, Edward J.

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ISBN 10: 069116455X
ISBN 13: 9780691164557
Author: Edward Balleisen

A comprehensive history of fraud in America, from the early nineteenth century to the subprime mortgage crisis The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers. Worship of entrepreneurial freedom has complicated the task of distinguishing aggressive salesmanship from unacceptable deceit, especially on the frontiers of innovation. At the same time, competitive pressures have often nudged respectable firms to embrace deception. As a result, fraud has been a key feature of American business since its beginnings. In this sweeping narrative, Edward Balleisen traces the history of fraud in America—and the evolving efforts to combat it—from the age of P. T. Barnum through the eras of Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff. Starting with an early nineteenth-century American legal world of “buyer beware,” this unprecedented account describes the slow, piecemeal construction of modern regulatory institutions to protect consumers and investors, from the Gilded Age through the New Deal and the Great Society. It concludes with the more recent era of deregulation, which has brought with it a spate of costly frauds, including the savings and loan crisis, corporate accounting scandals, and the recent mortgage-marketing debacle. By tracing how Americans have struggled to foster a vibrant economy without enabling a corrosive level of fraud, this book reminds us that American capitalism rests on an uneasy foundation of social trust.

Fraud An American History from Barnum to Madoff 1st Edition Table of contents:

PART I: Duplicity and the Evolution of American Capitalism

Chapter One: The Enduring Dilemmas of Antifraud Regulation

Chapter Two: The Shape-Shifting, Never-Changing World of Fraud

PART II: A Nineteenth-Century World of Caveat Emptor (1810s to 1880s)

Chapter Three: The Porousness of the Law

Chapter Four: Channels of Exposure

PART III: Professionalization, Moralism, and the Elite Assault on Deception (1860s to 1930s)

Chapter Five: The Beginnings of a Modern Administrative State

Chapter Six: Innovation, Moral Economy, and the Postmaster General’s Peace

Chapter Seven: The Businessmen’s War to End All Fraud

Chapter Eight: Quandaries of Procedural Justice