To Keep Putin and His Oligarchs Afloat, It Takes a System - The New York Times - 0 views
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We tend to think of corruption as a failure of morality, when a greedy person decides to benefit by steering public resources toward private gain.
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But while that’s not exactly untrue, it misses the most important thing: namely, that corruption is a group activity. You need bribe-payers and bribe-takers, resource-diverters and resource-resellers, look-the-other-wayers and demand-a-share-of-the-takers.
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When that kind of corrupt network behavior becomes widespread, it creates its own parallel system of rewards — and punishments.
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