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100 1  Balleisen, Edward J.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Fraud :|ban American history from Barnum to Madoff /
       |cEdward J. Balleisen. 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2017] 
300    xiv, 479 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-470) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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"--Book jacket. 
650  0 Fraud|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Commercial crimes|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Swindlers and swindling|zUnited States|xHistory.  
650  0 Financial institutions|xCorrupt practices|zUnited States
       |xHistory. 
650  7 Swindlers and swindling.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01140414 
650  7 Commercial crimes.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00869469. 
650  7 Financial institutions|xCorrupt practices.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00924643. 
650  7 Fraud.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00933786.  
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155.  
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628.   
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