# What I Like about this country is that it has a nice level of corruption!

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli
- Year: 2007
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Philosophy
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/what-i-about-country-it-has-nice-level-corruption)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Deep economic truths from the mouths of Washington DC taxi drivers. Trust is crucial to markets, never more so than in situations where corruption rules. In some places it's so bad that 'I trust you to cheat'. Yet corruption may serve a purpose; perhaps it is a necessary evil: one country's corruption is another country's flexibility, or indirect taxation, or access transaction. We shall look at definitions of corruption, some of the measures of corruption and some of the paradoxes in advanced economies' views on corruption. This is the Cambridge Allen & Overy Lecture.

## Lectures

1. [What I Like about this country is that it has a nice level of corruption!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/what-i-about-country-it-has-nice-level-corruption/051f9b80b59e) (YouTube)