This group is for discussion of the ideas in Prof. S.N. Balagangadhara's book : The Heathen in His Blindness : Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion.
The real problem seems to be that one ends up paying a price one did not expect to pay. Presumably, when someone takes a bribe, you have no idea whether the
<quote> Doing so would allow true price competition and the actual price of setting up your phone would be the price set by the marketplace more efficiently.
Here is an aspect to be looked at. China consumes $0.7 T, exports about $7T. Consumption, savings, social security (or some govt safety net) are tightly
... Honestly, this does not cut it, unless theory means some exotic thing. In order to solve the problem of corruption, you need to work with some or another
Isn't there another way to analyze the phenomenon that Ackoff describes? I'm certainly no economist, but let me attempt to put forward an analysis that is