Corruption: A Short History

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From ancient times to modern, corruption has been ingrained in human society and is still a powerful issue in the contemporary world.

In Corruption: A Short History, Carlo Brioschi provides a thorough and entertaining look at how corruption was born and has evolved over time, without ever being stamped out. He examines corruption through politics and historyfrom Babylon to modern-day U.S. organized crime and the great market collapsesand concludes with reflections on the moral perception of corruption and its dangers for democracy.

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It's a beautiful, brilliant, from some perspectives tragic book about perhaps the most important issue of our times."- Alain de Botton

Author Bio

Carlo Alberto Brioschi is an Italian journalist, book author, and publisher. He is currently editorial consultant at Rai Eri, part of the italian broadcasting company, and at Corriere Della Sera, the main Italian newspaper in Italy; he was the non-fiction editorial director at Rizzoli, the second-largest publishing group in Italy, and prior to that he was non-fiction editor at Utet and Mondadori. As a journalist, he wrote for Corriere Della Sera, L'Indipendente and Il Giornale. He teaches theory and methods of mass media at the European Institute of Design. Among his books are Il malaffare (2011) and Il politico portatile (2014).