A Historian’s Approach to Fraud

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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 Press

Balleisen, Edward (2001) Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Balleisen Edward and David Moss (Eds.) (2009) Government and Markets: Towards a New Theory of Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press