Articles by Stephen Mihm

Stephen Mihm is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other publications on topics ranging from North Korea's counterfeiting operations to the historical roots of today's credit crises. In his new book, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States, published in 2007 by Harvard University Press, Mihm "vividly and entertainingly describes the muddled and often fraudulent economy of pre-greenback America: those freewheeling, pre–Civil War days when the federal government not only did not print paper money but likewise did not bother to regulate those regional banks that did" (Publishers Weekly).