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Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
Princeton University Press
October 2008
On Sale: September 22, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 0691134545
EAN: 9780691134543
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat
who double-parks his Mercedes on New York streets at rush
hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic
immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by
magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys.
The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who
bilks the developing world of billions in aid. The
calculating crook who views stealing and murder as just
another part of his business strategy. And, in the wrong set
of circumstances, he just might be you. In Economic Gangsters, Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel take
readers into the secretive, chaotic, and brutal worlds
inhabited by these lawless and violent thugs. Join these two
sleuthing economists as they follow the foreign aid money
trail into the grasping hands of corrupt governments and
shady underworld characters. Spend time with ingenious black
marketeers as they game the international system. Follow the
steep rise and fall of stock prices of companies with
unseemly connections to Indonesia's former dictator. See for
yourself what rainfall has to do with witch killings in
Tanzania--and more. Fisman and Miguel use economics to get inside the heads of
these "gangsters," and propose solutions that can make a
difference to the world's poor--including cash infusions to
defuse violence in times of drought and steering the World
Bank away from aid programs most susceptible to corruption. Take an entertaining walk on the dark side of global
economic development with Economic Gangsters.
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