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Years ago, as I looked around at the economy and noticed case after case of honest people getting screwed and crooks reaping accolades and fortune, I started wondering if our economic system had not fundamentally shifted, from a capitalist system somewhat leavened and greased by corruption, to an economic system funamentally animated and driven by corruption, with a little capitalism on the margins. I used to worry that I was being cynical. Now I know I was naive.
#1 Posted by edward ericson jr., CJR on Mon 19 Oct 2009 at 03:48 PM
Ed, I agree; I think there WAS a significant shift in the business culture. What strikes me is the speed with which entire industries dispensed with long established business norms once incentivized to do so and freed from regulatory constraints. Appropriate underwriting, duties to investors? Those lasted about 15 minutes. The corruption frame is useful because it transcends ideology and party. If Fannie was just as corrupt as New Century, it's all the same to me.
#2 Posted by Dean Starkman, CJR on Mon 19 Oct 2009 at 06:15 PM
It sounds glib to say it, but I wonder if there is a way to quantify corruption, or to understand it as its own economic system. A state planned economy works a certain way, and breaks down a certain way, as corruption infects the party ranks. "Capitalism" also works a certain way. Does it too break down in a predictable manner, with a predictable half-life, given specific environmental factors? Has anyone, academic or journalistic, ever looked at corruption not as an abberation but as an economic system of its own, with its own rules? Is "criminogenic" a better word for what I'm trying to get at?
#3 Posted by edward ericson, CJR on Tue 20 Oct 2009 at 02:55 PM