What Soviet Medicine Teaches US
“In order to receive minimal attention by doctors and nursing personnel, patients had to pay bribes.”
You want to increase corruption? All you got to do is centralize power. Market forces are so strong that even in a system with total control, and where everything is “free”, scarce products will always go to the highest bidder. In this case the “owner” of the product or service is the one that controls access to it and he will use all his creative power to make the most of his “ownership”.
You want to decrease corruption? Diffuse power as much as possible. That is why capitalistic countries under the rule of law will always have less corruption than authoritarian countries.
Excellent points. Rule of law, property rights, freedom are all essential - along with decentralize/smaller government.
Thanks for your post.