中文名: 经济黑帮
英文名: Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
别名: 经济匪徒，经济神探，黑帮经济学
资源格式: PDF
版本: 文字版
发行时间: 2008年9月22日
地区: 美国
语言: 英文
简介:
◎译名黑帮经济学：国家的腐败、暴力与贫穷
◎原名Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
◎出版时间2008
◎国家美国
◎类别特色类别-进口原版
◎版本N/A
◎语言英文
◎文件格式PDF
◎文件大小2.0MB
◎页码251页
◎作者Raymond Fisman / Edward Miguel
◎官方网站 http://www.economicgangsters.com/
◎豆 瓣 http://www.douban.com/subject/3193904/
内容介绍：
《经济黑帮》是一段进入经济发展的神奇探险。得益于作者的天才探索，那些看上去无关紧要的事件，如纽约的停车卡和苏哈托的一次感冒，都成为了理解这个世界到底是如何运行的工具。很少有这样一本经济学著作能这么有趣且如此重要。
Meet 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.
Take an entertaining walk on the dark side of global economic development with Economic Gangsters.
Economic Gangsters is a fascinating exploration into the dark side of economic development… Subjected to their genius, seemingly inconsequential events (like New York City parking tickets and Suharto 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
《魔鬼经济学》合著者之一
