Systems of Deceit: Financial Fraud and Scandal in the United Kingdom, 1700-2010

by Steven Toms

Financial fraud is a serious and seemingly intractable problem. Financial scandals regularly punctuate newspaper headlines and regulators and auditors appear bereft of effective responses. But has this always been the case?This book quantifies financial crime in the UK using three centuries of data. It demonstrates how financial fraud and scandal vary according to systematic economic and institutional arrangements. In doing so, it retells the history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811281009
• ISBN13: 9789811281006
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"