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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| 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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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