Fisman / Miguel Economic Gangsters

Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
With a New postscript by the authors
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3479-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Raymond Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and director of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School. He is a columnist for Slate. Edward Miguel is professor of economics and director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fisman, Ray

Miguel, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Fighting For Economic Development 1

Chapter Two: Suharto, Inc. 22

Chapter Three: The Smuggling Gap 53

Chapter Four: Nature or Nurture? Understanding the Culture of Corruption 76

Chapter Five: No Water, No Peace 111

Chapter Six: Death by a Thousand Small Cuts 136

Chapter Seven: The Road Back From War 159

Chapter Eight: Learning to Fight Economic Gangsters 186

Epilogue: Doing Better This Time 207

Postscript to the Paperback Edition 211

Ac know ledg ments 215

Notes 219

Index 239

Über Autor(innen)

Raymond Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and director of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School. He is a columnist for Slate. Edward Miguel is professor of economics and director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley.