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Fraud : An American History from Barnum to Madoff
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Duplicity and the evolution of American capitalism
- The enduring dilemmas of antifraud regulation
- The shape-shifting, never-changing world of fraud
- Part II: A nineteenth-century world of caveat emptor (1810s to 1880s)
- The porousness of the law
- Channels of exposure
- Part III: Professionalism, moralism, and the elite assault on deception (1860s to 1930s)
- The beginnings of a modern administrative state
- Innovation, moral economy, and the Postmaster General's peace
- The businessmen's war to end all fraud
- Quandaries of procedural justice
- Part IV: The call for investor and consumer protection (1930s to 1970s)
- Moving toward Caveat venditor
- Consumerism and the reorientation of antifraud policy
- The promise and limits of the antifraud state
- Part V: The market strikes back (1970s to 2010s)
- Neoliberalism and the rediscovery of business fraud.