In the paper #OTD in 1972. Five men are arrested for breaking into the DNC offices at the Watergate Hotel. #nytimes pic.twitter.com/02tCVWkYAs
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#OTD 1972 The Watergate burglary
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in economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: bribery and corruption, Richard Nixon
Causes of Corruption
29 Apr 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption
Corruption and Public Sector Wages
11 May 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption
Johan Norberg on Tax Havens
07 May 2016 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, entrepreneurship, public economics Tags: bribery and corruption, tax havens
How to fight corruption
07 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, income redistribution, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption
why the world isn’t even more corrupt than what we observe
04 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics, economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, Gordon Tullock, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, Tullock paradox
George Plunkitt of Tammany Hall on the difference between honest and dishonest political graft
21 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption
In the book Plunkitt of Tammany Hall William Riordan published many of George Washington Plunkitt’s thoughts about government and about big city machines. In the link below, you can find the passage that explains the difference between honest and dishonest graft.
Honest graft is using your connections and knowledge as a government official to enrich yourself. It is essentially what we would now call “insider trading.”
Honest graft is when a goverment official goes out (for example) and buys up land because he knows a city project will need that land and he will be able to make a lot of money by buying the land now while no one else knows that it is about to be bought by the city. He can buy it cheap and then sell it at a higher price to the city.
Dishonest graft consists of doing things like blackmailing people who are doing illegal or semi-illegal things. It can also consist of actually taking money directly from the city treasury.
It is more of what you would expect mobsters to do–things like forcing prostitutes to pay money to police in order to be allowed to work in a given area rather than being arrested.
Source: How does George Plunkitt define “honest/dishonest graft”? | eNotes.
@paul1kirby why does @OECD claim that Indians trust their judicial system so much?
07 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights Tags: bribery and corruption, capitalism and freedom, doing business, economics of corruption, Index of Economic Freedom, India, rule of law
For a country riddled with corruption, Indians report the surprising amount of confidence in their courts despite the corruption in those courts as well.
Source: Index of Economic Freedom.
Corruption vs. Human Development
09 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, capitalism and freedom, rent seeking, rule of law, The Great Fact
Corruption vs. Human Development (HDI) http://t.co/WNlSMYzdWD—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) August 08, 2015
The official salaries of African presidents
22 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of crime, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics Tags: Africa, bribery and corruption
What African Presidents Make (Officially) http://t.co/X3F0j5DYHG—
ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) July 23, 2015
Who profits from #climatechange alarmism #COP21 and #roadtoparis
23 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, labour economics, occupational choice, personnel economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, conjecture and refutation, consultants, green hypocrisy, green rent seeking, Left-wing hypocrisy, public intellectuals
https://twitter.com/RogerAPielkeSr/status/627888796562927616/photo/1
A schematic of climate system from nap.edu/openbook.php?r… Changes are much more than changes in CO2 concentrations http://t.co/g8gs44UnN8—
Roger A. Pielke Sr (@RogerAPielkeSr) August 05, 2015
Corruption index for south-east Asia
04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, rentseeking Tags: bribery and corruption, China, Indonesia, Philippines
Corruption in Indonesia: Jokowi’s arduous task in cleaning up the government econ.st/1FJ3sS0 http://t.co/1myuRbwoXK—
The Economist (@EconBizFin) June 11, 2015
FIFA became a really big business quickly
03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in sports economics Tags: bribery and corruption, FIFA
#FIFA generated more than $2bn in 2014 revenues (as a tax-exempt non-profit)
forbes.com/sites/niallmcc… http://t.co/sR13qU4DJC—
Statista (@StatistaCharts) May 27, 2015
World Cup host country spending
03 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in sports economics Tags: bribery and corruption, soccer, World Cup
The World Cup is a huge deal to Qatar bloom.bg/1JWRtW4 http://t.co/4RxIevaY0k—
Bloomberg VisualData (@BBGVisualData) June 02, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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