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Big business on campus

25 February 2013 in Education, Private sector

One of the more disturbing revelations in Inside Job, the 2010 documentary film that brilliantly exposes the corruption in the financial industry in the lead-up to the crash, is that of the widespread connections between universities and Wall Street. The film reveals that some prominent academic economists were paid by firms to speak out or […]

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Anti-Corruption Research Paper Competition Open for Submissions

9 September 2011 in Measurement and Research

Farzana Nawaz is a Programme Coordinator for the Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) at Transparency international. If the experience of the anti-corruption community over the last 20 years has taught us anything, it’s that corruption is a nearly ubiquitous, multi-faceted problem and that fighting it is a complicated endeavour. Great progress has been made over the […]

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