Financial Crime and Corruption by Samuel Vaknin
3. Is not influenced by the introduction of irrelevant
5 words | Chapter 62
(not very gainful) alternatives; and
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. 1997. The US Department of Justice brought another 30
3. 1989. Both events have forever altered the patterns of the
4. 1. Egregiously corrupt, high-profile, public figures,
5. 2. All international aid, credits, and investments must
6. 3. Corruption cannot be reduced only by punitive
7. 4. Opportunities to be corrupt should be minimized
8. 5. Corruption is a symptom of systemic institutional
9. 6. Corruption is a symptom of an all-pervasive sense
10. 1999. Its report remains classified but Stroev confirmed
11. 1995. PwC did make a mild comment in the 1997 audit.
12. introduction of best independent directors' practices".
13. 1989. Six years later, their number shrank to 1,612 and it
14. 2600. By 2002, it has increased elevenfold since 1995.
15. 2001. Nine of every 10 hijacked ships are ultimately
16. 4. NEVER expect ANY help from the Nigerian
17. 5. NEVER rely on YOUR Government to bail you
18. 1996. Iraqis are also being trained in Belarus to operate
19. 1. Job security is a thing of the past. Itinerancy in various
20. 2. Outsourcing and offshoring of back office (and, more
21. 3. The populace in developed countries are addicted to
22. 4. The other side of this dismal coin is workaholism - the
23. 5. The depersonalization of manufacturing - the
24. 6. Many former employees of mega-corporations abandon
25. 7. Despite decades of advanced notice, globalization
26. 8. The decline of the professional guilds on the one hand
27. 9. The quality of one's work, and of services and products
28. 10. Moral relativism is the mirror image of rampant
29. 11. The disintegration of the educational systems of the
30. 12. Irrational beliefs, pseudo-sciences, and the occult
31. 1. That the fair "value" of a share is closely
32. 2. That price movements are mostly random, though
33. 3. That the fair value responds to new information
34. introduction of a reciprocal visa regime between the two
35. 1. Legal activities that are not reported to the tax
36. 2. Illegal activities which, needless to say, are also
37. 1. How to make sure that the expenditures match and
38. 2. How to prevent the criminally corrupt activities
39. introduction of free marketry are unemployment and
40. 1. There should be no barriers to the entry of new
41. 2. A larger scale of operation does introduce
42. 3. Efficient competition does not exist when a market
43. 4. A competitive price will be comprised of a
44. 1. Blocking Statutes - which prohibit its legal entities
45. 2. Clawback Provisions - which will enable the local
46. 1. National laws should be applied to solve
47. 2. Parties, regardless of origin, should be treated as
48. 3. A minimum standard for national antitrust rules
49. 4. The establishment of an international authority to
50. 1. Agreements to fix prices (including export and
51. 3. Market or customer allocation (division)
52. 5. Collective action to enforce arrangements, e.g., by
53. 6. Concerted refusal to sell to potential importers;
54. 7. Collective denial of access to an arrangement, or
55. introduction of new management techniques (example:
56. 1. They attack the perceived source of frustration in
57. 2. They seek to subsume the object of envy by
58. 3. They resort to self-deprecation. They idealize the
59. 4. They experience cognitive dissonance. These
60. 5. They avoid the envied person and thus the
61. 2. It is impossible for two players to improve the
62. 3. Is not influenced by the introduction of irrelevant
63. 4. Is symmetric (reversing the roles of the players
64. 1. Crooks and other illegal operators. These take
65. 2. Illegitimate operators include those treading the
66. 3. The "not serious" operators. These are people too
67. 4. The former kind of operators obviously has a
68. 5. Speculators and middlemen are yet another
69. 6. The last type of market impeders is well known
70. 1995. But the phenomenon recurred in Kosovo.
71. 1. What part of the NGO's budget is spent on salaries and
72. 2. Which part of the budget is spent on furthering the aims
73. 3. What portion of the NGOs resources is allocated to
74. 4. What part of the budget is contributed by governments,
75. 5. What do the alleged beneficiaries of the NGO's
76. 6. How many of the NGO's operatives are in the field,
77. 7. Does the NGO own or run commercial enterprises? If it
78. 1. The process and rules of joining up (i.e., the
79. 2. The application and membership procedures are
80. 3. The system alters its membership requirements in
Reading Tips
Use arrow keys to navigate
Press 'N' for next chapter
Press 'P' for previous chapter