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Ekonomikos Gangsteriai: Korupcija, Smurtas Ir Valstybių Skurdas (2012)

by Ray Fisman(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

9955235799 (ISBN13: 9789955235798)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Baltos lankos

review 1: Pretty good read, found my mind wandering after about 5 pages or thereabouts so it took me awhile to get thru this one. Tough subject; trying to scientifically measure corruption in various parts of the world. I commend the authors for a noble effort. Economists are not known for page-turners. When I heard about the premise on goodreads, I had to give it a shot & glad I did. I would recommend to others interested in social justice. Beyond documenting various forms of corruption & out & out stealing by the well-connected, this book actually gives possible solutions. However, the 'solutions' are as unlikely as taking money out of the election process in the US. While a bit dry for my taste, still, it had it's moments & was actually funny in an outlandish kind of way in sever... moreal places.
review 2: From two development economists, popularizations of their papers measuring, bribes by following the share prices of companies owned by children of dictators through the health crises of the dictators, correlating UN parking tickets with the international index of corruption, suggesting small tariff changes that close loopholes like the chicken-turkey Chinese scam, mapping the disastrous effects of shrinking Lake Chad, examining Tanzania's anti-witch-hunting programs (giving old women enough in pensions to make them valuable enough not to kill), the bad news that in Indonesian road-building, threats from outside audit are far more successful than the direct democracy local town meetings controlling the money and a critique of Jeffrey Sachs' Millennium Villages for not keeping quantifiable records of success. less

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