[ExI] government corruption, was: RE: Social Mobility and Bioconservatism

[BillK]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM, spike wrote:
> Thanks for the link Stathis.  I predict that the USA will drop dramatically
> in the 2009 rankings, from 18th to somewhere in high 20s to mid 30s.  It
> sure appears to me we have ushered in a government culture of corruption on
> an unprecedented scale.  Any other predictions?
>


Don't forget the US entrepreneurial business ethic, Spike.
The US has some of the biggest corporations in the world, so it is
already well ahead in the corporate corruption index.
<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWBIGOVANTCOR/Resources/ETHICS.xls>
This is an Excel spreadsheet of corporate corruption by country.

Now the question is:
If the government nationalizes lots of these corporations will the
corruption shift from corporate to government?
Does the total overall corruption level in a country stay about the
same, regardless of how the balance between corporate and government
moves?

BillK