[ExI] Social Mobility and Bioconservatism

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2009/2/20 painlord2k at libero.it <painlord2k at libero.it>:

> This is not unsurprising.
> I remember reading this prediction somewhere in the writings of Mises or
> Rothbard.
> As the government enlarge is power, and in Italy the government in all its
> branch run a big chunk of the economy and of the job market, the people
> working in his branch will start to carve a niche of power and secure it.
>
> Why a university professor or a doctor in a government hospital would not
> help their friends or relatives or allies to obtain a secure job?

You're talking about corruption. The Corruption Perception Index
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index) ranks the
top ten (i.e. least corrupt) countries:

Denmark
New Zealand
Sweden
Singapore
Finland
Switzerland
Iceland
Netherlands
Australia
Canada

Italy is indeed quite low among the OECD countries at no. 55. Do you
see a correlation between level of government involvement in the
economy and corruption in these rankings?



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Stathis Papaioannou