Everybody knows : corruption in America / Sarah Chayes.
America is corrupted, and everybody knows it. Vested interests have bent government powers to serve themselves, not the citizens, with dizzying results - egregious Supreme Court rulings, revolving doors and cozy deals between the state and the private sector, and forty years of financial meltdowns.I...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hurst & Company,
2020.
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| Summary: | America is corrupted, and everybody knows it. Vested interests have bent government powers to serve themselves, not the citizens, with dizzying results - egregious Supreme Court rulings, revolving doors and cozy deals between the state and the private sector, and forty years of financial meltdowns.In this blistering book, Sarah Chayes shows that today's corruption - even the venality of the Trump administration - is part of global history, going back to the invention of money itself. We're not dealing with 'bad apples' lining individual pockets, but the widespread standard practice of sophisti. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (414 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781787385092 1787385094 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed December 12, 2020) |