Fraud : : An American History from Barnum to Madoff / / Edward J. Balleisen.
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, compe...
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Balleisen, Edward J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fraud : An American History from Barnum to Madoff / Edward J. Balleisen. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (496 p.) : 20 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Part IV: The Call for Investor and Consumer Protection (1930s to 1970s) -- Chapter Nine: Moving toward Caveat Venditor -- Chapter Ten: Consumerism and the Reorientation of Antifraud Policy -- Chapter Eleven: The Promise and Limits of the Antifraud State -- Part V: The Market Strikes Back (1970s to 2010s) -- Chapter Twelve: Neoliberalism and the Rediscovery of Business Fraud -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Commercial crimes History. Commercial crimes United States History. Financial institutions Corrupt practices History. Financial institutions Corrupt practices United States History. Fraud History. Fraud United States History. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110543322 print 9780691183077 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400883295?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400883295 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400883295.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Part IV: The Call for Investor and Consumer Protection (1930s to 1970s) -- Chapter Nine: Moving toward Caveat Venditor -- Chapter Ten: Consumerism and the Reorientation of Antifraud Policy -- Chapter Eleven: The Promise and Limits of the Antifraud State -- Part V: The Market Strikes Back (1970s to 2010s) -- Chapter Twelve: Neoliberalism and the Rediscovery of Business Fraud -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
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