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- English
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About this book
From ancient times to modern, corruption has been ingrained in human society and is still a powerful issue in the contemporary world.
In Corruption: A Short History, Carlo Brioschi provides a thorough and entertaining look at how corruption was born and has evolved over time, without ever being stamped out. He examines corruption through politics and history—from Babylon to modern-day U.S. organized crime and the great market collapses—and concludes with reflections on the moral perception of corruption and its dangers for democracy.
In Corruption: A Short History, Carlo Brioschi provides a thorough and entertaining look at how corruption was born and has evolved over time, without ever being stamped out. He examines corruption through politics and history—from Babylon to modern-day U.S. organized crime and the great market collapses—and concludes with reflections on the moral perception of corruption and its dangers for democracy.
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Edition
1Subtopic
Economic HistoryINDEX
Abacha, Sani, 181
Abramoff, Jack, 170–71
Absolutism, 83–84. See also Totalitarianism
Accetto, Torquato, 69–70
Accountability, 20, 219
Accounting fraud, 184
Adams, Henry, 166
Adherbal, 45
Adorno, Theodor W., 177
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Collodi), 139–40
Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, 204
Aitken, Max, 133–34
Alexander the Great, 29, 35–36, 37
Alexander VI (pope), 61, 62
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 135
All the King’s Men (Warren), 163–64
American Marconi Corporation, 191
American Sociological Society, 183
An American Tragedy (Dreiser), 163
Ames, Oakes, 107
Amis, Martin, 154
Ancient Greece, corruption in, 10–11, 29–37
Andreuccio of Perugia, 59
Animal Farm (Orwell), 152–53
Anticorruption movements, 208, 219
Anti-Federalists, 103
Antiochus, 46
Anti-Semitism, 61, 72
Antisthenes, 35
Aquinas, Thomas, 62, 199
Aquino, Bartolomeo d’, 85
Arendt, Hannah, 145
L’argent (Zola), 130–31
Aristophanes, 33
Aristotle, 30, 198, 199
Arthashastra (Kauṭilya), 21–22
Arthur Andersen, 189
Articles of Confederation (U.S.), 102
Asset bubbles, 186
Augustine, 37, 52–53, 199
The Autumn of the Patriarch (García Márquez), 156
Azeglio, Massimo d’, 121
Bacon, Francis, 93, 94
Badoglio, Pietro, 150
Bakan, Joel, 190
Balbo, Italo, 148
Balduino, Domenico, 121
Balzac, Honoré de, 117–18, 192–93
Banca Romana, 122, 192
Bank of China, 174
Bank of France, 83
Bankruptcy, 86, 120, 173...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: If Julius Caesar Is a Thief
- One: The Gift in Antiquity
- Two: Democracy and Decadence
- Three: Bribes in Ancient Rome
- Four: The Feces of the Devil
- Five: Corruption in Power
- Six: Philosophy of Corruption
- Seven: A Pragmatic Approach to Corruption
- Eight: The American Dream of Purity
- Nine: Restoration and Decadence
- Ten: Parts in the Play
- Eleven: The Great Dictatorships
- Twelve: Beyond the Age of Innocence
- Thirteen: Expansion of the Realm of Corruption
- Fourteen: Corrupt Finance: The Great Market Collapses
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index