Understanding Ponzi schemes
Subtitle: can better financial regulation prevent investors from being defrauded?
By: Mervyn K. Lewis
Series: New horizons in money and finance; New horizons in money and finance
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781782549093
Subjects: Ponzi schemes; Fraud; Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.An outline of the book; title: 2.How do Ponzi schemes work? Comparing them to other financial activities; title: 3.Charles Ponzi's scheme re-examined; title: 4.Bernard Madoff and the ̀mother of all Ponzi schemes'; title: 5.Allen Stanford: the cricketing impresario; title: 6.Five other case studies: from shaking down the FBI to bitcoin fraud; title: 7.Preying on the Amish; title: 8.What can behavioural finance tell us?; title: 9.What would psychologists say?; title: 10.What can be done about Ponzi schemes?; title: 11.Summary and conclusions.