Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

by EdwardLGlaeser (Author), Claudia Goldin (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $59.01

  In the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of corrupt developing nations as municipal governments and robber barons alike found ways to steal from taxpayers and swindle investors. This book explores this shadowy period of United States history in search of better methods to fight corruption world-wide.