Recent Essays

Avenues for Further Inquiry

This essay lays out several research agendas that I see as meriting attention, first and foremost from historians, but also from social scientists and humanists from other disciplines.

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Historiography of American Business Fraud

This essay furnishes an overview of scholarship on the core subject matter of the book, mostly from the discipline of history, but also from other social science disciplines.

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A Brief Consideration of Primary Sources and Methods

This essay sketches the array of documents that underpinned my research, discusses some key conceptual approaches to regulatory governance that shaped my thinking and arguments, and offers several conceptual schematics that convey snapshots of anti-fraud regulatory ecologies.

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Recently Added Resources

Fraud Lexicons

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Primary Sources

This page contains a collection of primary sources useful for research on anti-fraud regulation in the United States, and will be updated and expanded periodically.

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Bibliography

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Historical Scholarship on Modern Business Fraud

Bibliography

Sources & Methods

Avenues for Further Research

About this Website

"Suckers & Swindlers" provides a range of online resources that complement my book, Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff.  A portion of the content represents material that sometimes appears within the covers of a scholarly book, such a full bibliography.  But I also have posted lots of other material – essays about sources and methods, the scholarship on American business fraud, and avenues for additional research; links to reviews/discussions of the book; and much else besides.  The site will eventually furnish a platform for the provision of primary sources, including an image gallery, along with other teaching materials. A long-term project such as this one benefits from collaborations and help along the way. Please click here to learn more about the team behind this site.

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