"Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations" Monday, November 17th at 3:00 PM in J1-050

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PRESENTING AUTHOR
Raymond Fisman
Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and
Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia
Business School.
Professor Fisman worked as a consultant in the Africa Division of
the World Bank for a year before moving to Columbia in 1999.
Professor Fisman's research focuses on corruption and more broadly
on what makes people do bad things (he also sometimes thinks about
why people do good things). His work has been published in leading
economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal
of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. He writes
a monthly column for Slate magazine. Economic Gangsters. is his
first book.

PANELISTS
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