Corruption and Reform : Lessons from America's Economic History /

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...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Glaeser, Edward L. 1967-, Goldin, Claudia Dale.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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