Economic Gangsters : : Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations /

Economic Gangsters : : Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations / / Ray Fisman, Edward Miguel.

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Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City 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 fr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Fisman, Ray,
Miguel, Edward,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:With a New postscript by the authors
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 4 line illus. 4 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter One. Fighting for Economic Development
  • Chapter Two. Suharto, Inc.
  • Chapter Three. The Smuggling Gap
  • Chapter Four. Nature or Nurture? Understanding the Culture of Corruption
  • Chapter Five. No Water, No Peace
  • Chapter Six. Death by a Thousand Small Cuts
  • Chapter Seven. The Road Back from War
  • Chapter Eight. Learning to Fight Economic Gangsters
  • Epilogue. Doing Better this Time
  • Postscript to the Paperback Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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