Wednesday Jan 25 2017
is the topic of the book review of When Crime Pays in today's WSJ, page A 15.
The book focuses on rascals elected in the world's largest Democracy, India. One politician threatened to 'feed those who cross him to the crocodiles' making most of
Trump's threats look pretty tame.
The belief is that when the government fails to provide services, someone will step in to capitalize on that failure. I recently watched Excobar Paradise Lost.
He built medical facilities and swimming pools and such and promoted himself to Colombians on that basis. Of course once he agreed to a prison term, he had everyone killed who m ight remotely tell the authorities more dirt on him.
But my point here is that on Wednesday the WSJ has a long book review. One can learn a good deal reading such reviews as well as
reviews on Amazon. Here is a link to When Crime Pays.
We are studying accounting ethics in ACCT 5308 this semester. Reading book and movie reviews of books and movies with ethical themes and content is a way to broaden your understanding of such topics.
Professor Elam 
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