Plans for more analysis of Corruption in Nations

From : Parhatsathid Napatalung <parhat@yahoo.com> 
Sent : Monday, January 24, 2005 4:19 AM 
To : Van Sloan <vansloan@hotmail.com> 
Subject : Re: FW: Bangkok photos and other 1/21 email 

 

Dear Van Sloan:

 

I have been delighted to see you in Bangkok, and

yes there are lot of things I want to send you about

corruption, such as the basics of corruption,

apparently the majority of the population, even

politicians, law makers, and believe it or not,

corrupt officials do not understand the underlying

idea of corruption.

 

While this is a topic people like to talk about,

it is also a topic many do not like to go further and

kept under wraps. It is also true that it is now a hot topic

amongst economists, but their approach has been basically

on looking from the point of view of "rents seeking" and

market distortions, corruption in private sector, etc.

They are looking from the point of view of how

corruption effects the economy, rather than how what

causes corruption and why is it so difficult to stop

them and what to do about it. It is undeniable that it

is at least 20 times more costly then all the street

crimes combined (drugs, murders, extortion, burglary,

etc.) but we should go further than just look at the

effect, we should look at ways of preventing it

shouldn't we?

 

Now sociologists take a view of corruption more from

individual crime or street gangs, while privately

acknowledging occupational crime as most serious. So

the point of them has been the acts or crime and

conditions for crime, again avoiding the issue of

cause from the point of view of economic gain and

basic social framework by which corruption is

perpetrated from an administrative point of view.

 

Therefore the general academia tone at the moment

is: "You politicians find ways to do something about

it - see what effect it does?" rather than: "Here is

the Hows and Whys and What we can do about it". My

paper, while a simple one, will deal with the second

more difficult attitude.

 

Are there any other ideas on corruption you want me

to submit? My female friend, Miss Pandaree Preecha

(Tina) is off to her studies in India for Ph.D. in

Sociology, I think she will not have much time to send

it to you directly but basically we agree on a lot of

issues which will be summarized in that paper I will send

you. If you want me to send some Work-in-progress I

will send that too.

 

Have you thought of being a talk show host? You can

easily rival Larry King.

 

All the best,

 

Ted

 

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