LEADER 04268nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910808000903321 005 20220419025730.0 010 $a1-282-93620-4 010 $a9786612936203 010 $a1-4008-3479-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400834792 035 $a(CKB)2670000000060724 035 $a(EBL)617254 035 $a(OCoLC)699474624 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000484019 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11335295 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000484019 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10588024 035 $a(PQKB)11060471 035 $a(DE-B1597)453715 035 $a(OCoLC)979593109 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400834792 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617254 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10435971 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293620 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617254 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000060724 100 $a20100415d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEconomic gangsters $ecorruption, violence, and the poverty of nations /$fRaymond Fisman and Edward Miguel 205 $aWith a New postscript by the authors 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-14469-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 219-237) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter One. Fighting for Economic Development --$tChapter Two. Suharto, Inc. --$tChapter Three. The Smuggling Gap --$tChapter Four. Nature or Nurture? Understanding the Culture of Corruption --$tChapter Five. No Water, No Peace --$tChapter Six. Death by a Thousand Small Cuts --$tChapter Seven. The Road Back from War --$tChapter Eight. Learning to Fight Economic Gangsters --$tEpilogue. Doing Better this Time --$tPostscript to the Paperback Edition --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aMeet 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. In a new postscript, the authors look at how economists might use new tools to better understand, and fight back against, corruption and violence in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Take an entertaining walk on the dark side of global economic development with Economic Gangsters. 606 $aCorruption$xEconomic aspects 606 $aPolitical corruption$xEconomic aspects 606 $aSmuggling 615 0$aCorruption$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aPolitical corruption$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aSmuggling. 676 $a364.1323 700 $aFisman$b Raymond$0992090 701 $aMiguel$b Edward$0992091 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808000903321 996 $aEconomic gangsters$92270710 997 $aUNINA