Fraud is a crime of relationships. It involves dishonesty, deception, betrayals of trust and abuses of power. This article elaborates the complex psychodynamics in fraud matters and delineates psychologically sophisticated tools for actionably leveraging psychodynamic intelligence.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat Interviews Alexander Stein on the Psychology of Fraudsters and Power Abusers

Bernard Madoff, architect of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died today, 14 April 2021, at the age of 82. His fraud was far more than a masterfully executed economic crime. We must never lose sight of the devastating human toll wrought by his actions.

Do you want to be a terrible leader? Not terrible as in not good. But in the classical sense: venal, amoral, remorseless. Feared and admired. Destructive and self-serving. Then this is the how-to guide you’ve been waiting for.

Master-imposters are virtuoso liars. It's hard to see the truth about who they are before getting duped. But potential victims aren’t defenseless. Here's what you need to know.

Human history is a catalogue of conflicts, often expressed with horrifyingly unconscionable amorality, over whose system of ethics or code of behavior is more right.

A response to a reader’s comment to a blog post authored with Martin Kenney on the idea that Everyone is a Fraudster.

A discussion with Martin Kenney on the core psychological devices used in the commission of fraud that are normal, shared by all and simply part of being human.