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Meet up with the economic gangster. He's the US 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 language smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically changing frozen hens into freezing turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unethical bureaucrat who bilks the expanding world of billions in help. The calculating crook who views stealing and murder as yet another part of his business strategy. And, in the wrong set of circumstances, he might you need to be you.
In Economic Gangsters, Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel take visitors in to the secretive, chaotic, and brutal worlds inhabited by these lawless and violent thugs. Sign up for both of these sleuthing economists as they follow the overseas aid money trail in to the grasping hands of corrupt government authorities and shady underworld character types. Spend time with clever black marketeers as they game the international system. Follow the steep surge and fall of stock prices of companies with unseemly associations to Indonesia's ex - dictator. See for yourself what rainfall is due to witch killings in Tanzania--and more.
Fisman and Miguel use economics to get inside the heads of the "gangsters," and propose alternatives that can make a difference to the world's poor--including cash infusions to defuse violence in times of drought, and steering the entire world Bank away from help programs most vunerable to problem.
Take an entertaining walk on the dark side of global economic development with Economic Gangsters.
