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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Main Author: Chayes, Sarah, 1962- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: London : Hurst & Company, 2020.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: Dismissing Corruption -- I. Money (Ca. 650 BC-AD 33) -- 1. Midas -- 2. Jesus -- 3. Aristotle -- II. Crazy Money (1873-1935) -- 1. Europe -- 2. The United States -- 3. The Late-Born Baron -- III.The Hydra (1980s-) -- 1. "Eight Mortal Heads" -- 2. Powers Wielded: The Scales -- 3. Powers Wielded: The Pen and the Mace -- 4. Powers Wielded: The Purse -- 5. Powers Sabotaged -- 6. Bowing to the Money Changers -- 7. Tactics and Countermoves -- 8. Colluders -- IV. It Throve on Wounds (1870s-1945) 
505 8 |a 1. Fighting the Hydra: The Cities -- 2. Fighting the Hydra: The Countryside -- 3. "It Had Needed a War" -- V. The Pattern (1980-) -- 1. The Turning (1980s) -- 2. The Validation (1980s-1990s) -- 3. Courting Calamity (1990s-) -- Epilogue: Breaking the Pattern -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Illustration Credits -- A Note on the Type. 
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