Combating Corruption -- Roger Bate, The American
Corruption threatens freedom and economic growth around the world.
Frank Vogl has spent more than half his life exposing and fighting corruption — first as a journalist, then with the World Bank, and finally with Transparency International, which he cofounded. His book about his experiences, Waging War on Corruption, does not disappoint.
The book is a history of both those who have fought corruption — the dangers they faced and the obstacles they overcame — and of the people exposed. From Watergate to the Arab Spring, Vogl was either directly writing about or otherwise exposing the corruption involved.
Vogl explains the problem thus:
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My Comment: In my travels I have always found that societies that have a greater portion of their GDP dependent on government is where the corruption is the worst. Free economic policies replaced by a political economy is a guarantee that a culture of corruption will flourish and grow.