{"product_id":"fraud-an-american-history-from-barnum-to-madoff-cd-9781681682969","title":"Fraud","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot only is \u003ci\u003eFraud\u003c\/i\u003e a careful and thoughtful exploration of the complicated relationship between business, the market, and policy. It is also a thought-provoking and engaging book.\u003cb\u003e--Dan Ariely, author of \u003ci\u003ePredictably Irrational\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the end, capitalism is always a confidence game, so the problem of fraud is always with us. But the occurrence, perception, and regulation of fraud has a history, and Balleisen has now written the definitive account of it. A deeply researched and beautifully crafted book that follows the shape-shifting problem of deceit across the centuries, \u003ci\u003eFraud\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing short of a new history of American capitalism.\u003cb\u003e--Jon Levy, University of Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA huge achievement. This will be the authoritative history of fraud in the United States for many years to come. Edward Balleisen takes us on a fascinating and entertaining tour of the many ways that swindlers have consistently shadowed America's proudest innovations, sometimes even outdoing the originals for ingenuity and impact.\u003cb\u003e--Walter A. Friedman, Harvard Business School\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften vivid and always thoughtful, this is a very important and impressive work by a rigorous, venturesome historian at the top of his game. When so much public debate about regulation is polemical and hyperbolic, Edward Balleisen has made a major contribution by writing a book that thoroughly, comprehensively, even-handedly, and engagingly examines the history of American fraud and its regulation from the early nineteenth century to today.\u003cb\u003e--Daniel R. Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50389711585553,"sku":"CIN1681682966VG","price":44.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1681682966.jpg?v=1750800259","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/fraud-an-american-history-from-barnum-to-madoff-cd-9781681682969","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}