False Economy - Alan Beattie [160]
The stories on corruption in the East India Company, the French military, and late imperial China are from Vinod Pavarala, "Cultures of Corruption and the Corruption of Culture"; William Doyle, "Changing Notions of Public Corruption, c. 1770-c. 1850"; and Pierre-Etienne Will, "Officials and Money in Late Imperial China," all in a fascinating collection edited by Emmanuel Kreike and William Chester Jordan, Corrupt Histories, University of Rochester Press, 2004.
Details on corruption in Indonesia and elsewhere in East Asia are from Michael Rock and Heidi Bonnett, "The Comparative Politics of Corruption: Accounting for the East Asian Paradox in Comparative Studies of Corruption," World Development 32 (2004); Andrew Maclntyre, "Investment, Property Rights, and Corruption in Indonesia," and Ha-Joon Chang, "State, Capital, and Investments in Korea," both in J. E. Campos, ed., Corruption: The Boom and Bust of East Asia, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2001; Andrew Maclntyre, "Funny Money: Fiscal Policy, Rent-Seeking and Economic Performance in Indonesia," and Paul Hutchcroft, "Obstructive Corruption: The Politics of Privilege in the Philippines," both in K. S. Jomo and Mushtaq Khan, eds., Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development, Cambridge University Press, 2000. A defense of Suharto is from Dennis de Tray, "Giving Suharto His Due," posted on the blog of the Center for Global Development at http://blogs.cgdev.org, January 2008.
Various analyses of Nyerere's rule in Tanzania are in Michael Hodd, ed., Tanzania After Nyerere, Pinter, 1988; Nyerere's own admission of failure is from Karl Maier, Into the House of the Ancestors, John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
The riveting tale of Portugal's colonial misadventures in Goa is told in George Davison Winius, The Black Legend of Portuguese India, Concept, 1984.
The U.S. political spoils system of the nineteenth century is described by Peri Arnold in Seppo Tiihonen, ed., The History of Corruption in Central Government, International Institute of Administrative Sciences, 2003.
9. Path Dependence
The famous paper on the QWERTY keyboard is by Paul David, "Clio and the Economics of QWERTY," American Economic Review 75 (1985).
The story of the New York City parking tickets is found in Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel, "Cultures of Corruption," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 12,312, 2006.
China's successful route toward a market economy is explored by Shuhe Li and Peng Lian in J. E. Campos, ed., Corruption: The Boom and Bust of East Asia, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2001. Russia's shakier journey is described in Stefan Hedlund, Russia's "Market" Economy: A Bad Case of Predatory Capitalism, Routledge, 2000; and in the more optimistic Anders Aslund, Russia's Capitalist Revolution, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007. China and Russia are compared by Jens Andvig in Susan Rose-Ackerman, ed., International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Edward Elgar, 2007.
Comparisons of transitions out of communism in Central and Eastern Europe are by Richard Ericson, "The Russian Economy: Market in Form but Feudal in Content," and Vladimir Popov, "Strong Institutions Are More Important Than the Speed of Reforms," both in Michael Cuddy and Ruvin Gekker, eds., Institutional Change in Transition Economies, Ashgate, 2002; and Martin Myant et al., "Successful Transformations?" Journal of Comparative Economics 26 (1998).
Details on India's economy and caste