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Prescribed Corruption

Posted on May 21, 2013 By Hector Gamboa 21 Comments on Prescribed Corruption
Prescribed Corruption

Let me start off with a joke taken from the book Bad Medicine: The Prescription Drug Industry in the Third World by Silverman, Lydecker, and Lee. I changed it a little bit to make the political issues more appropriate for this article but nevertheless, the message remains the same as it describes the magnitude of…

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Government, Politics

Why the Philippines Failed? A Developmental Perspective

Posted on April 18, 2013April 18, 2013 By Richard Javad Heydarian 38 Comments on Why the Philippines Failed? A Developmental Perspective
Why the Philippines Failed? A Developmental Perspective

In his seminal book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), Max Weber, widely known as the father of modern sociology, provided (arguably among the first and most compelling) arguments on the relationship (or correlation) between ‘culture’ and ‘economic productivity’. As an established economic analyst, Weber was interested in understanding why protestant nations…

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