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CONTENTS

[ I. Slush Funds ]

[ II. Corruption and Transparency ]

[ III.Money Laundering in A Changed World ]

[ IV. Hawala, or The Bank that Never Was ]

[ V. Straf - Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe ]

[ VI. The Kleptocracies of the East ]

[ VII. FIMACO - Russia's Missing Billions ]

[ VIII. The Enrons of the East ]

[ IX. The Typology of Financial Scandals ]

[ X. The Shadowy World of International Finance ]

[ XI. Treasure Island Revisited On Maritime Piracy ]

[ XII. Legalizing Crime ]

[ APPENDIX - Should Drugs be Legalized? ]

[ XIII. Begging Your Trust in Africa ]

[ XIV. Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe ]

[ XV. Selling Arms to Rogue States ]

[ XVI. The Industrious Spies ]

[ XVII. Russia's Idled Spies ]

[ XVIII. The Business of Torture ]

[ XIX. The Criminality of Transition ]

[ XX. The Economics of Conspiracy Theories ]

[ XXI. The Demise of the Work Ethic ]

[ XXII. The Morality of Child Labor ]

[ XXIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield ]

[ XXIV. The Future of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ]

[ Section 3 of the Act, titled "Commission Rules and ]

[ XXV. Trading from a Suitcase. The Case of Shuttle Trade ]

[ XXVI. The Blessings of the Black Economy ]

[ XXVII. Public Procurement and Very Private Benefits ]

[ XXVIII. Crisis of the Bookkeepers ]

[ XXIX. Competition Laws ]

[ XXX. The Benefits of Oligopolies ]

[ XXXI. Anarchy as an Organizing Principle ]

[ XXXII. Narcissism in the Boardroom ]

[ XXXIII. The Revolt of the Poor ]

[ XXXIV. The Kidnapping of Content ]

[ XXXV. The Economics of Spam ]

[ XXXVII. The Fabric of Economic Trust ]

[ XXXVIII. The Distributive Justice of the Market ]

[ XXXIX. The Agent-Principal Conundrum ]

[ XL. The Green-Eyed Capitalist ]

[ Notes on the Economics of ]

[ XLII. Market Impeders and Market Inefficiencies ]

[ XLIII. The Pettifogger Procurators ]

[ XLIV. Microsoft's Third Front ]

[ XLV. NGOs - The Self-Appointed Altruists ]

[ XLVII. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? ]

[ XLVII. The Honorary Academic Higher Education for Sale ]

[ XLVIII. Rasputin in Transition ]

[ XLVIX. The Eureka Connection ]

[ L. The Treasure Trove of Kosovo ]

[ LI. Milosevic's Treasure Island ]

[ LII. Macedonia's Augean Stables, ]

[ LIII. The Macedonian Lottery ]

[ LIV. Crime Fighting Computer Systems and Databases ]

[ After the Rain ]

[ LV. The Author ]

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