作者：RaymondFisman/EdwardMiguel
出版社：PrincetonUniversityPress
副标题：Corruption,Violence,andthePovertyofNations
出版年：2008-9-22
页数：256
定价：USD24.95
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780691134543
内容简介
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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 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 might just 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.
Economic Gangsters is a fascinating exploration into the dark side of economic development… Subjected to their genius, seemingly inconsequential events (like New York City parking tickets and Suharto catching a cold) become potent tools in understanding how the world really works. Rarely has a book on economics been this fun and this important.
— Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics
作者简介
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雷蒙德·菲斯曼，哥伦比亚商学院社会企业项目研究主任，《Slate》杂志的专栏作家。
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This book presente us economic causes and incentives of violences and corruptions in the world, especially in africa and some solutions. Economic principles are simple,but our mind should be trained t…
和那些把经济学拿来’趣谈‘的书很不一样，这本书虽然也不是学术著作，但相对严谨，观点也新颖却不哗众取宠。主题很明确：如何避免腐败、暴乱，拯救那些水深火热中的贫穷国家。
读的电子版。。。内容正好是我感兴趣的。。。
作者们陷入了迷宫，老是在转圈。一直在提问，却没有给出（确切的）解决方法——除了提出一个Rapid Conflict Prevention Support机制。老是在扯。
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