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Tomas A. Lipinski wrote the following two reviews.
The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures L. Jean Camp. New York: Springer, 2007, 184 pp. $59.95.
The work is primarily that of the author with several later chapters by other contributors such as a three page piece by Bennet Yee on trust code and hardware and one of the longest and densest in the book by Elaine M. Newton, based on a previously published RAND report on biometrics.
Early chapters present a useful taxonomy of "The Elements of Identity" (pp. 11-16) and Chapter 4 offers an overview of various identity management systems. Chapter 5 discusses "frauds" in the context of web sites, web-spoofing such as PayPal, which of course teases the broader unasked question: If we did not rely on online transactions and interactions so much maybe we would be a bit better off or, more to the focus of this monograph, with a bit less privacy perhaps it would be more difficult to "masquerade"...