La economía de la corrupción y la corrupción de la economía: una perspectiva institucionalista

Geoffrey Hodgson () and Shuxia Jiang
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Shuxia Jiang: Xiamen University

Revista de Economía Institucional, 2008, vol. 10, issue 18, 55-80

Abstract: This essay criticizes the commonplace definition of corruption as the misuse of public office for private gain. Both elements in this definition are wrong: corruption is also found in the private sector and in some exceptional cases it may not simply be for private gain. Another problem with prevailing treatments of corruption is their reliance on a utilitarian framework, which reduces ethical issues to matters of individual utility. This paper reinstates a non-utilitarian ethical dimension, and regards organizational corruption as involving collusion to violate established normative rules. It is further established that organizational corruption incurs irreducible social costs that cannot fully be internalized in a Coasean manner, because corruption itself undermines the very framework of property rights.

Keywords: corruption; rules; public and private benefit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 D73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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