Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China- and How About Russia? | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 481
The political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of government create different styles of corruption. The U.S. and China have more in common than we’d like to admit - but Russia is a different story, which could explain its willingness to invade Ukraine.
This episode was originally published April 13, 2022.
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I don't know if there is one, but I'd be very interested in listening to a longer documentary treatment about 20th and 21st century bank failures and related relevant information and events. I've even seen people making reference to the fact that the US has a banking system. Do you mean the federal reserve central bank or some system in another sense of the meeting? Did they mean the system of regulatory constraints? Does the system consist of both public and private institutions? It seems like we have a banking system in the same sense that we have a healthcare system. As far as I know, the healthcare system consists of Medicaid, Medicare, and VHS. And then there's the mixed economy phenomenon called Obamacare.