The political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang has some great work addressing this neighborhood of intuitions. Her view is basically that “corruption” is decomposable into a several distinct types of phenomena, and some of these can be growth-promoting (as in China during the period between, approximately, Deng and Hu), whereas others can be fairly extreme impediments to growth.
Thanks so much for this! I don’t know why I ever thought about decomposing the idea of corruption but it seems like a really obvious framework now that you’ve mentioned it. Hoping to give that a read sometime.
The political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang has some great work addressing this neighborhood of intuitions. Her view is basically that “corruption” is decomposable into a several distinct types of phenomena, and some of these can be growth-promoting (as in China during the period between, approximately, Deng and Hu), whereas others can be fairly extreme impediments to growth.
Thanks so much for this! I don’t know why I ever thought about decomposing the idea of corruption but it seems like a really obvious framework now that you’ve mentioned it. Hoping to give that a read sometime.
Happy to recommend her work highly.