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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Charlatans by Moises Naim and Quico Toro read by Fajer Al-Kaisi
Description: From snake-oil salesmen to crypto grifters, the “fascinating” (Fareed Zakaria) story of charlatans—and why we fall for them
For centuries charlatans have been bamboozling victims. But today, charlatanry is more lucrative and global than ever. Using the power of digital technology, our age’s charlatans have spun a worldwide web of exploitation on an unprecedented scale.
In Charlatans, global affairs experts Moisés Naím and Quico Toro investigate how charlatans fool us and why they’ve become so influential today. They argue that modern charlatans exploit the same weak points in human cognition as the snake-oil salesmen of the old West...