Machine generated contents note: 1.An outline of the book
2.How do Ponzi schemes work? Comparing them to other financial activities
3.Charles Ponzi's scheme re-examined
4.Bernard Madoff and the `mother of all Ponzi schemes'
5.Allen Stanford: the cricketing impresario
6.Five other case studies: from shaking down the FBI to bitcoin fraud
8.What can behavioural finance tell us?
9.What would psychologists say?
10.What can be done about Ponzi schemes?
11.Summary and conclusions.
