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481. Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China?

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Is There a Corruption in the Knowledge Industry?

In the knowledge industry we sometimes, or maybe often, see a similar dynamic. And i would call it a publication friendlie gender. The incentives of the profession will lead people to overwhelmingly, and disproportionately study certain kinds of topics in certain ways at the expense of truly important questions that, frankly, very few people want to touch. I hope that doesn't get me into too much trouble. I hope it does. Ai wedos, right kind of trouble. It's true that it's much easier to conde corruption among the poor, very difficult to talk about influence politics among the rich.

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