1800s
1900s
19th
20th
academic
america
american
analysis
banking
Category=JBF
Category=KCM
Category=KCZ
century
change
corrupt
deregulation
economics
economy
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
finance
financial
fraud
global
government
historical
history
income
international
investor
laws
legal
money
reformer
research
scandal
scholarly
stealing
taboo
taxpayer
theft
united states
urban
usa
wealth
Product details
- ISBN 9780226299587
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2008
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world's least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today's most corrupt developing nations as municipal governments and robber barons alike found new ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. In "Corruption and Reform", contributors explore this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption world-wide today. The contributors to this volume address the measurement and consequences of fraud and corruption and the forces that ultimately led to their decline within the United States.
Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Taubman Center for State and Local Government and a research associate at the NBER. Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Development of the American Economy Program and a research associate at the NBER.
