Dan Davies: Lying for Money. How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World (2018)

Former stock analyst Dan Davies has categorized and compiled in Lying for Money various frauds that people throughout history have used to try to extract money from others. Some of the scams date back to ancient times, when, for example, seafarers would take out insurance on their ship and then claim it had sunk, simply painting a new name over the old one. The scams are presented in an order…