| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w13164 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 13164 |
| Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries? | |
| Rafael Di Tella; Robert MacCulloch | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-06-11 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We find anecdotal evidence suggesting that governments in poor countries have a more left wing rhetoric than those in OECD countries. Thus, it appears that capitalist rhetoric doesn't flow to poor countries. A possible explanation is that corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism. The empirical pattern of beliefs within countries is consistent with this explanation: people who perceive corruption to be high in their country are also more likely to lean left ideologically (and to declare support for a more intrusive government in economic matters). Finally, we present a model explaining the corruption-left connection. It exploits the fact that an act of corruption is more revealing about the fairness type of a rich capitalist than of a poor bureaucrat. After observing corruption, voters who care about fairness react by increasing taxes and moving left. There is a negative ideological externality since the existence of corrupt entrepreneurs hurts good entrepreneurs by reducing the electoral appeal of capitalism. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Fiscal Policy ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Economic Systems |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w13164 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/570833 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rafael Di Tella,Robert MacCulloch. Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?. 2007. |
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