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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Ponzi scheme puzzle
    sub title: a history and analysis of con artists and victims
  name:
    name part: Frankel, Tamar.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2012
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 231 pages)
  abstract: Charles Ponzi perpetrated his infamous scheme almost a hundred years ago. But his method of using new investments to pay existing investors and finance a highflying lifestyle is alive and well: just as much money is lost in the United States today from Ponzi schemes as from shoplifting. Somehow, con artists are able to dazzle wealthy, educated individuals and sophisticated institutions and convince them to hand over huge sums of money. How?In The Ponzi Scheme Puzzle, renowned legal scholar Tamar Frankel explores these con artists' fascinating power of persuasion and deception, uncovering the subtle signals that mimic truth and honesty. After years of close study of hundreds of cases, Frankel explains the striking patterns that emerge and the common characteristics of the con artists and their victims. She offers clear yet comprehensive descriptions of the various designs of Ponzi schemers' attractive offers and flags the ways in which they mask their deception through specialized methods of advertising and selling. She then constructs lucid profiles of the con artists and their victims, exposing the core nature of the people at the heart of the schemes and showing how over time the lines between predator and prey are blurred. There are indeed many lessons to learn from these stories, and Frankel brings them to light through the insightful results of her research. She shows how peoples' attitudes are ambivalent and uncertain toward con artists, perhaps because their behavior is so seemingly honest, because they act like the social leaders with whom they are likely to mingle, or perhaps because their actions are thought to shake up a complacent society. Frankel concludes by offering a surprising solution on how to prevent charming, dangerous con artists from perpetuating the enduring, disastrous legacy of Charles Ponzi.
  table of contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Con artists at work -- Stories of Ponzi schemers -- Charles Ponzi -- Bernard Madoff -- Gregory Bell -- The basic design -- Selling the stories -- Con artists' behavior seems a "normal usual behavior" -- A profile of the con artists and their victims -- How does the public view the con artists and the victims?
  note: Tamar Frankel.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: Swindlers and swindling
  subject:
    topic: Investment advisors
    topic: Corrupt practices
  subject:
    topic: Corruption
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Self-consciousness (Awareness)
  subject:
    topic: Conseillers en placements
    topic: Pratiques déloyales
  subject:
    topic: Conscience de soi
  subject:
    topic: TRUE CRIME
    topic: Hoaxes & Deceptions
  subject:
    topic: Corruption
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Self-consciousness (Awareness)
  subject:
    topic: Swindlers and swindling
  classification: HV6691 .F73 2012eb
  classification: 364.16/3
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    title info:
      title: Ponzi scheme puzzle
    name:
      name part: Frankel, Tamar.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012
    identifier: (DLC) 2011051887
    identifier: (OCoLC)769010935
  identifier: 9780199926626
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 120827
    record change date: 20260318191133.1
    record identifier: in00005708854
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng