The Ethics of Bribery

While most people assume that all bribery is unethical, the literature provides examples and philosophical arguments to support the proposition that some bribery may actually be ethical, based on utilitarian grounds. This book provides a theoretical and empirical examination of bribery from an ethical perspective. It examines empirical data from over 80 countries and reports on attitudes toward bribery examining demographic variables such as gender, age, ethnicity, education, income level, religion and social class. Multi-country comparisons are provided to determine whether views toward bribery differ by geographic location.

Auteur

Robert W. McGee is a best-selling author and political pundit who writes political fiction from an individualist perspective. Before becoming a novelist, he was a professor, attorney, CPA and consultant. He also published 59 non-fiction books and lectured or worked in more than 30 countries. Serkan Benk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Finance at Inonu University in Turkey. His research interests in public finance are the theory of taxation, public economics, tax compliance and taxpayer behavior. In recent years, he has focused on ethics of tax evasion. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of social science, particularly psychology, business and law.