Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Part I: Duplicity and the Evolution of American Capitalism
6. Chapter One: The Enduring Dilemmas of Antifraud Regulation 3
7. Chapter Two: The Shape- Shifting, Never-Changing World of Fraud 14
8. Part II: A Nineteenth- Century World of Caveat Emptor (1810s to 1880s)
9. Chapter Three: The Porousness of the Law 43
10. Chapter Four: Channels of Exposure 75
11. Part III: Professionalization, Moralism, and the Elite Assault on Deception (1860s to 1930s)
12. Chapter Five: The Beginnings of a Modern Administrative State 107
13. Chapter Six: Innovation, Moral Economy, and the Postmaster General’s Peace 143
14. Chapter Seven: The Businessmen’s War to End All Fraud 174
15. Chapter Eight: Quandaries of Procedural Justice 208
16. Part IV: The Call for Investor and Consumer Protection (1930s to 1970s)
17. Chapter Nine: Moving toward Caveat Venditor 245
18. Chapter Ten: Consumerism and the Reorientation of Antifraud Policy 285
19. Chapter Eleven: The Promise and Limits of the Antifraud State 316
20. Part V: The Market Strikes Back (1970s to 2010s)
21. Chapter Twelve: Neoliberalism and the Rediscovery of Business Fraud 353
22. List of Abbreviations 385
23. Notes 387
24. Index 471