The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign Against Grand Corruption

by J.C. Sharman

Book Overview

An unprecedented new international moral and legal rule forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to counter grand corruption or kleptocracy ("rule by thieves"), when leaders of poorer countries--such as Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu in the Congo, and more recently those overthrown in revolutions in the Arab world and Ukraine--loot billions of dollars at the expense of their own citizens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501705512
• ISBN13: 9781501705519
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher