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Zusatztext "[A] fascinating and helpful book." ---Charles Crawford, LSE British Politics and Policy blog Informationen zum Autor Raymond Fisman & Edward MiguelWith a new postscript by the authors Klappentext "I already knew Fisman and Miguel were the best and the brightest in the new generation of development economists. Now I know they are great writers--and great detectives. They find ingenious ways to get inside the issues of corruption and violence that leave behind the tired analyses of the past. It's a lively tale that nobody concerned about world poverty or violence can afford to miss." --William Easterly, author of The White Man's Burden " Economic Gangsters reveals the important connections between poverty, crime, and corruption, helping us to see what a small and intertwined world we live in." --Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational " Economic Gangsters is a fascinating exploration of the dark side of economic development. Two of the world's most creative young economists use their remarkable talents for economic sleuthing to study violence, corruption, and poverty in the most unexpected ways. Subjected to their genius, seemingly inconsequential events (like New York City parking tickets and Suharto's 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 "Those who love to pontificate, unconstrained by data, about the nature of human evil, will hate this book. It takes on corruption, murder, and civil wars, and shows us, step by step, how economic methods, creatively used, can help us find relevant data in unexpected places, data that makes it possible to offer rigorous (and sometimes surprising) answers to questions that, hitherto, had been consigned to the realm of pure speculation." --Abhijit Banerjee, director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zusammenfassung Takes the readers into the secretive, chaotic, and brutal worlds inhabited by the economic gangsters. This title uses economics to get inside the heads of these 'gangsters', and proposes solutions that can make a difference to the world's poor. It looks at how economists use the tools to understand, and fight back against, corruption and violence. 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 ...
