The Ponzi scheme puzzle
Subtitle: how victims get caught in the net and how self awareness can help protect them
By: Tamar Frankel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780199926619
Subjects: Investment advisors; Swindlers and swindling; Corrupt practices; Self-consciousness (Awareness); Corruption; Prevention
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Con artists at work; title: Stories of Ponzi schemers; title: Charles Ponzi; title: Bernard Madoff; title: Gregory Bell; title: The basic design; title: Selling the stories; title: Con artists' behavior seems a "normal usual behavior"; title: A profile of the con artists and their victims; title: How does the public view the con artists and the victims?.