Corruption, Capitalism and Democracy
Author(s): John Girling Category: Economic, Human Rights, Politics Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0-203-20306-2 Pages: 198 Country: USA Language: English More Details
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Corruption arises from the collusion of economic and political elites, a practice that has developed in order to overcome the contradiction of two important processes of our time: capitalism and democracy. In this new study of the phenomenon, the author shows how corruption is the practice of collusion taken to excess; ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’. Corruption, by ‘going too far’, exposes what is normally hidden from view; the collusive system of elites furthering the expansion of capitalist practice and market practice at the expense of democratic practice and public values.