Description Meet the Economic gangster.
Edward Miguel is professor of economics and.
He is a columnist for Slate.
About the Author Raymond Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and director of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia Business School.
Take an entertaining walk on the dark side of global Economic development with Economic Gangsters.
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.
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.
See for yourself what rainfall has to do with witch killings in Tanzania--and more.
Follow the steep rise and fall of stock prices of companies with unseemly connections to Indonesia\'s former dictator.
Spend time with ingenious black marketeers as they game the international system.
Join these two sleuthing economists as they follow the foreign aid money trail into the grasping hands of corrupt governments and shady underworld characters.
In Economic Gangsters, Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel take readers into the secretive, chaotic, and brutal worlds inhabited by these lawless and violent thugs.
And, in the wrong set of circumstances, he might just be you.
The calculating crook who views stealing and murder as just another part of his business strategy.
The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing world of billions in aid.
He\'s the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys.
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.
Description Meet the Economic gangster
