The Big Con
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The Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America
By Jonathan ChaitThe best window into the mindset of the right came in National Review's weblog from Jonah Goldberg, one of the conservative movement's more respected writers. Conceding the undeniable implications of Niskanen's research, ...
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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man
By David MaurerThe classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called “a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan humor, as sly and rich in atmosphere as anything this side of Mark Twain.” “Of all the ...
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The Big Con: The Classic Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Trick
By David W. MaurerOffers the American lingo (the write, the rag, the pay-off, ropers, shills, the cold poke and the convincer) and indeliable characters (Yellow Kid Weil, Barney the Patch, the Seldom-Seen Kid, Limehouse Chappie and Larry the Lug).
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The Big Con: The True Story of how Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics
By Jonathan ChaitA nationally syndicated columnist furnishes an eye-opening exposé that reveals how a small cadre of economic hucksters, obsessed with radical ideas that benefit no one but themselves and their business interests, have seized control of the ...
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The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man
By David MaurerShares insights from confidence men and swindlers on the schemes they used to cheat their victims
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The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History
By Nate HendleyCovering American cons and hoaxes past and present, including the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, the controversy over "subliminal messaging" (do bands, filmmakers, and advertisers really put secret messages in their works?), the panic about ...
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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies
By Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie CollingtonIn the end, the Big Con weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments, and warps our economies. In The Big Con, Mazzucato and Collington throw back the curtain on the consulting industry.
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THE BIG CON: COVID DECODED
By David John OatesThe book contains information transmitted in reverse through the words of the perpetrators of the current crimes against humanity under the disguise of emergency restrictions supposedly for the protection of the public in every country in ...
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The Big Con: How I Stole GBP30 Million and Got Away with it
By Tony SalesThe Big Con: How I Stole GBP30 Million and Got Away with it
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The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics
By Jonathan ChaitA nationally syndicated columnist furnishes an eye-opening exposé that reveals how a small cadre of economic hucksters, obsessed with radical ideas that benefit no one but themselves and their business interests, have seized control of the ...
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The Big Con: Great Hoaxes, Frauds, Grifts, and Swindles in American History
By Nate HendleyThis book examines a broad range of infamous scams, cons, swindles, and hoaxes throughout American history—and considers why human gullibility continues in an age of easy access to information.