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