Mark A. Zupan

Inside Job

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mark A. Zupan examines why, how, where, and when government insiders subvert the public interest, undermining democracies as well as autocracies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781107153738
• ISBN-10: 1107153735
• Artikelnr.: 47864867

Autorenporträt

Mark A. Zupan is President of Alfred University, New York. He holds a BA from Harvard University, Massachusetts and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has won several teaching awards. He has served on the boards of several for-profit companies, including Constellation Brands, PAETEC Holdings, Northern Trust, HNP Capital, iVEDiX, and Stocker Yale, as well as non-profits such as the United Way, the Harley School, GMAC, and AACSB. His previous book, Microeconomics: Theory and Applications (2012), co-authored with Edgar Browning, is currently in its twelfth edition. Zupan has published pieces in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, BloombergBusinessweek.com, Huffington Post, Kiplingers, and Financial Times.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Government for the people?
2. Why worry about government insiders and their profits?
3. How do government insiders profit at the public's expense?
4. What do government insiders stand to gain?
5. What factors curb hijacking by government insiders?
6. Why are government insiders so hard to control?
7. Where and when has the state been co-opted from within?
8. Government insiders: a day of reckoning for China?
9. Government insiders: a day of reckoning for the US?
10. How can we form a more perfect union?
Bibliography
Index.