A Historian’s Approach to Fraud March 12, 2021 businesshistoryworkshops by Jacques Ter Wengel How can historians study shady business? What are the challenges of studying fraud? What are the benefits? Edward Balleisen (Duke University) author of Fraud explains this in the following video. More on Ed Balleisen Balleisen, Edward (2017), Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff. Princeton: Princeton University PressBalleisen, Edward (2001) Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina PressBalleisen Edward and David Moss (Eds.) (2009) Government and Markets: Towards a New Theory of Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Share: