6 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American entrepreneur and convicted fraudster who organized Fyre Festival in 2017 — the disastrously fraudulent luxury music festival in the Bahamas — which became a case study in influencer-driven marketing, entrepreneurial fraud, and the gap between brand promise and reality.
Italian-American fraudster who defrauded investors in Boston in 1919–1920 by promising 50% returns in 90 days through international postal reply coupon arbitrage — which was impossible at scale — creating the scheme that now bears his name.
The 2017 fraudulent luxury music festival in the Bahamas organized by Billy McFarland and Ja Rule — which collapsed catastrophically on its opening day, stranding thousands of ticket holders without food, accommodation, or performances — and which generated two major documentaries.
American rehabilitation hospital chain founded by Richard Scrushy in 1984 — which became the largest US provider of rehabilitation services — before a massive accounting fraud scandal in 2003 revealed that Scrushy had orchestrated a $2.7B fraud.
Swedish entrepreneur who built the world's largest match monopoly — controlling two-thirds of global match production — and who financed his empire through fraudulent bonds sold to American investors, creating history's most sophisticated financial fraud before dying (suicide or murder) in 1932 as the scheme collapsed.
Frank Partnoy's 2009 biography of Ivar Kreuger — tracing his rise from Swedish match factory to global monopolist to the world's most sophisticated fraudster — and his role in inspiring New Deal securities regulation.