Engdahl uses Goffman's concepts of

a. "barriers" or "back regions" to show how social positions strengthen the possibility of executing economic crime
b. "fronts" or "front regions" to show how presentation of self and impression management by brokers can increase their ability to carry out economic crime
c. social interaction to demonstrate how clients who are swindled are "marks" who must be "cooled out" by adept brokers to accept their losses and status as losers
d. "interpretive primacy" to account for clients' roles as whistle blowers (enforcers)


A

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