Recommended Reading: The Age of Confidence Men

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: J. P. Hill, Melissa Ryan, Jared Yates Sexton, Joyce Vance, Don Moynihan, Kahlil Greene, Jim Wallis, and Chrissy Stroop

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:

J. P. Hill

writes that “Today’s biggest cons happen on a scale infinitely larger than taking the occasional watch. Our era is marked by how common mass swindling is, and how these schemes still rely on confidence and trust given willingly to people who don’t deserve it. In fact, some might say that our economy is increa…