Economic Research on Corruption and Anti-Corruption

Author: Ni Xing
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This series of "Library" includes five major series with over 30 works, covering multiple fields such as the fundamentals and practice of management, local government management, regional public management, government behavior, and rule of law administration. In the "Public Management System and Practice Research" series, the authors strive to explore the basic theories and specific management fields of public management. In the "Local Government and Regional Public Management Research" series, the researchers focus on exploring cutting-edge and hot issues in local government and regional management. In the "Government Behavior and Rule of Law Administration Research" series, the researchers address pressing and hot issues in government behavior and rule of law administration. Administrative management is an ancient yet young discipline, with a profound historical foundation and a continuous momentum of innovation. The research on public management, as conducted by this center, adheres to the following fundamental principles: First, combining foreign theories with the actual context of China. Second, integrating theoretical research with practical application. Third, balancing specialization with diversification. Fourth, emphasizing tradition while fostering innovation. From an economic perspective, the basic human characteristic is the economic man characteristic, which is the foundation of human behavior, the driving force of market economy development, and also the guiding principle of political and social life. This book primarily adopts economic theories and methods to study the issue of anti-corruption construction, thus highlighting the economic man characteristic of human behavior. For a country, the social benefits of combating corruption are the avoidance of negative impacts caused by corrupt activities on society, quantitatively equal to the social costs of corruption. These costs include the personal costs of corrupt individuals, economic development, political stability, the strengthening of government integrity, and the maintenance of social moral standards.