Rogue Banking: A History of Financial Fraud in Interwar Britain
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Since the turn of the millennium, the British media has been awash with stories of bankers and financiers caught engaging in acts of corporate wrongdoing and financial skullduggery. But just how different are these crimes to those committed in the past? And, is the threat of financial fraud greater today than in bygone years? In this book, Matthew Hollow begins answering these questions by providing an in-depth historical overview of some of the most significant frauds that took place in the British financial sector between 1919 and 1939. Using extensive archival evidence, he reveals the variety of tactics that were employed by interwar fraudsters to conceal their underhand transactions and dupe the British public into handing over their money. He goes on to explore the different factors that motivated these fraudsters many of whom had previously had blemish-free records to engage in these acts of deception and deceit. Rogue Banking is a unique resource for history and finance researchers and students, both in the UK and around the world, who are interested in questions relating to corporate fraud and white-collar crime. This book's interdisciplinary approach also makes it an accessible and informative tool for professionals in accountancy, management and criminology.
In: Business history, S. 1-26
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Business history, Band 64, Heft 7, S. 1346-1368
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Enterprise & society: the international journal of business history, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 132-158
ISSN: 1467-2235
In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the amount of scholarship on the history of shareholding in Britain. One area that still remains relatively unexplored, however, is the problematic issue of how British investors actually went about the process of choosing their respective investments. The purpose of this article is to make a start at redressing this gap by using the (perceived) sharepushing crime wave that swept across Britain during the interwar period as a prism through which to evaluate the behavior of Britain's shareholding population at this time. Ultimately, what it suggests is that, while the interwar British investors may well have had far more potential sources of advice and information open to them than their nineteenth-century forebears, this did not necessarily mean that they were any better informed about the workings of the British securities market.
In: The economic history review, Band 70, Heft 4, S. 1449-1450
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The economic history review, Band 70, Heft 1, S. 360-360
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Business history, Band 57, Heft 4, S. 647-648
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 66, Heft 2, S. 338-339
ISSN: 1465-3427
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 66, Heft 2, S. 338-339
ISSN: 0966-8136
In: Business history, Band 56, Heft 5, S. 746-764
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Open Citizenship, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 68-73
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In: Urban history, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 117-135
ISSN: 1469-8706
ABSTRACT:This article evaluates the inherent ambiguity of the landmark Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield, England. Incorporating Foucault's theories on governmentality and biopolitics, this article explores how techniques of power and control radically affected the way this building was both used and viewed. It shows how conflicting discourses about human needs and desires influenced the way that subjects were housed, managed and regulated in Sheffield during the supposedly homogeneous welfare-state years.
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