Do corrupt tendencies persist across changes in country? Very often yes.

Does paying public officials more limit corruption?  How much do we have to pay?

What do we know about anti-corruption campaigns?  Which ones have worked?

Free trade, but not free capital movements!  Bhagwati is a key figure behind the idea of rent-seeking and also trade theory, plus he has been a keen observer of current events.

She still has an excellent chance for a Nobel Prize.  She is the preeminent thinker on measuring the costs of rent-seeking, plus her work on trade and growth continues to resonate.

An searing example of corruption from Katherine Boo's Beyond the Beautiful Forevers.  Justice and individual rights are not distinct from development, justice and individual rights are required for and constitutive of development.

How does corruption skew the mix of outputs?  Do we get too many dams and too little education?

Are women less corrupt?  Maybe so!

Which underlying features of a social order predict and possibly cause corruption?  Some of the answers may surprise you.

Funny enough, one big question in economics is why the world isn't even more corrupt than what we observe.  It's not such an easy question to answer.