Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America’s Economic History — How Systems Restrain Corruption
Corruption is usually pictured as an exchange between a dishonest official and someone willing to pay. But the deeper question is what makes those exchanges valuable, sustainable, and difficult to challenge in the first place.
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Using Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America’s Economic History, edited by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, this investigation traces the institutional transformation of American corruption from the nineteenth century through the Progressive Era and beyond.
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