Lying for money : how legendary frauds reveal the workings of our world
Book |
First Scribner hardcover edition. |
Scribner,
New York :
2021.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
"Veteran regulatory economist and market analyst Dan Davies tells the story of fraud through a genealogy of financial malfeasance, including: the Great Salad Oil swindle, the Pigeon King International fraud, the fictional British colony of Poyais in South America, the Boston Ladies' Deposit Company, the Portuguese Banknote Affair, Theranos, and the Bre-X scam. Davies brings new insights into these schemes and shows how all frauds, current and historical, belong to one of four categories and operate on the same basic principles. Davies has years of experience picking the bones out of some of the most famous frauds of the modern age. Now he reveals the big picture that emerges from their labyrinths of deceit and explains how fraud has shaped the entire development of the modern world economy"--
Details
- ISBN: 9781982114930
- Physical Description: 304 pages ; 23 cmprint
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2021.
- General Note: "First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Profile Books"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.