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Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Ray Fisman
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Description for Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
Paperback. A thought-provoking examination of the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as ways to overcome it, Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) provides a wide-ranging overview of the key questions and issues. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFFX; JPZ; KCP; KJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (R), renowned scholars Ray Fisman and Miriam A. Golden provide a deeper understanding of why corruption is so damaging politically, socially, and economically. Among the key questions examined are: is corruption the result of perverse economic incentives? Does it stem from differences in culture and tolerance for illicit acts of government officials? Why don't voters throw corrupt politicians out of office? Vivid ... Read more
Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (R), renowned scholars Ray Fisman and Miriam A. Golden provide a deeper understanding of why corruption is so damaging politically, socially, and economically. Among the key questions examined are: is corruption the result of perverse economic incentives? Does it stem from differences in culture and tolerance for illicit acts of government officials? Why don't voters throw corrupt politicians out of office? Vivid ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190463977
SKU
V9780190463977
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About Ray Fisman
Ray Fisman is the Slater Family Chair in Behavioral Economics at Boston University. He is the coauthor of Economic Gangsters (with Edward Miguel); and with Tim Sullivan of The Org and The Inner Lives of Markets. Miriam A. Golden is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Los Angeles. A Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim ... Read more
Reviews for Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)
The importance of understanding corruption has never been so important as right now. This is the new go-to book on the topic. - Tyler Cowen, Professor of economics, GMU To tackle corruption we need to recognize that it is a symptom of a society in which incentives are distorted, control ... Read more