1: Introduction: Company Fraud in Historical Perspective
PART I: TOLERATION
2: The Morals of Mania: The 1820s
3: Mismanagement or Fraud? The 1830s
PART TWO: CRIMINALIZATION
4: Baffling Fraud: The 1840s
5: Criminalizing Fraud: The 1850s
6: One Law for the Rich? The 1860s
PART THREE: ENFORCEMENT
7: Offences Against the State: The 1870s
8: A Mixed Economy of Prosecutions: The 1880s
9: Regulating the City: The 1890s
10: Epilogue: Following the Victorian Path
James Taylor is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at Lancaster University. He is the author of Creating Capitalism and co-author of Shareholder Democracies.
James Taylor has established himself as one of the leading
historians of corporate capitalism in nineteenth-century Britain,
and his new monograph further augments his reputation. As with
Taylor's previous work, this book is very readable because the
author uses engaging and sometimes humorous vignettes to trace the
evolution of the criminalization of company fraud.
*John D. Turner, Economic History Review*
Boardroom Scandal is both a thought-provoking and engaging book, a
substantial work of historical recovery which will push future
studies of both the nineteenth-century economy and criminal justice
history in new directions.
*Rosalind Crone, History*
This book by James Taylor is an excellent example of an emerging
approach to the study of the past that could be called forensic
history.
*Ranald Michie, English Historical Review*
Taylor sets corporate fraud in a broader perspective, which
encompasses the evolution of the law, political economy, and
contemporary perceptions of who was right and who was wrong. He
deserves to be congratulated for this excellent piece of
scholarship.
*David Higgins, Enterprise & Society*
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