Lying for Money
How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World
$45.34
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
8 March 2022
Summary
An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written “with verve and wit” by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field.
The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, when it all unwinds.
Financial crime seems horribly complicated, but there are only so many ways you can con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982114947 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1982114940 |
| Author: | Dan Davies |
| Publisher: | Scribner Book Company |
| Imprint: | Scribner Book Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 8 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 137mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“An engaging and indispensable guide for novice fraudsters - and for those who want to keep out of their clutches.” –John Kay, author of Other People’s Money
“An engaging and indispensable guide for novice fraudsters - and for those who want to keep out of their clutches.” –John Kay, author of Other People’s Money
“Dan Davies tells all these stories with verve and wit … Much of the book is a romp through the crimes of scoundrels - Ponzi, Madoff, Keating, the Krays … Yet what takes it from absorbing to excellent is the author’s insight. Read Lying for Money and you will look at fraud in a whole new way. Actually, you will look at every market transaction you take part in in a whole new way.” –Sunday Times (UK)
“If you want to learn to fend [off] fraud, read this. And if you want to commit fraud … don’t. But if you absolutely must, first read this.” –Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Swindling is never a black and white business, and Davies is good on the shades of grey in fraud-land.”–Financial Times
“Readers who like their true-crime stories laced with economics will enjoy these forays into the dark side.” –Kirkus Reviews
Dan Davies
Dan Davies is a former regulatory economist at the Bank of England and analyst for a number of investment banks. His career has seen him tackle all manner of financial crookedness, including the LIBOR and Forex scandals, the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank, and the Swiss Nazi gold scandal. The author of Lying for Money, he has written for the Financial Times and The New Yorker, among other publications.
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