Ray Fisman's guest appearances

Ray Fisman

The Great Work Podcast

Radio Free Leader

Brainfluence

KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast

Whitney Johnson

Dorie Clark

Cal Newport

Jurgen Appelo

David Burkus

Adam Grant

Guy Kawasaki

Amy Herman

Srini Pillay

Jeff Goins

Emma Seppälä

Teresa Amabile

Jocelyn Glei

John Ruhlin

Tim Harford

OwlTail

We are thrilled to welcome Ray Fisman (@RFisman), Professor of Economics at Boston University, long-standing corruption expert and author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691144696/economic-gangsters) (with Ed Miguel) and Corruption: What everybody needs to know (https://books.google.de/books/about/Corruption.html?id=XdVKDgAAQBAJ&amp;redir_esc=y) (with Miriam Golden). Matthew and Ray sat down to discuss the classic question whether corruption always hinders development, which types of corruption are particularly harmful, conversations that inspired Ray’s career and Ray’s more recent work on the hidden influence of political connections. You can find all the referenced papers below:Professor Louis T. Wells (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_T._Wells) whose work on Indonesia influenced RaySamuel Huntington (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington) who coined the idea that corruption may grease the wheelsMoncur Olsen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancur_Olson) who introduced the distinction between some forms of centralized corruption being like a stationary bandit while other less centralized are like roving banditsAndrej Shleifer and Robert Vishny’s famous QJE paper entitled Corruptionhttps://academic.oup.com/qje/article/108/3/599/1881822?login=true Benjamin Olken and Patrick Barron’s work in Aceh introducing the idea of a toll booth theory of corruption https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/599707?casa_token=FXxoxMmoqHYAAAAA%3ARSJD5IXWK31c7PjQO_vIuBlNTyZPOCRhiszsBLnTd_j0Sn8rbN5kPkO-aK4bj_zLiKYaHe0xBLeN Shang-Jin Wei’s work on the varying prices of bribes https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/sw2446 New York Times Article of mine collapse in China: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/world/asia/china-mine-disaster.html Ray &amp; Marianne Bertrand’s work on hidden influence of political connectedness: https://gcgc.global/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/5.-Yegen_Politics_Ownership_compressed.pdf https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180615

We are thrilled to welcome Ray Fisman (@RFisman), Professor of Economics at Boston University, long-standing corruption expert and author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations (<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691144696/economic-gangsters" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691144696/economic-gangsters</a>) (with Ed Miguel) and Corruption: What everybody needs to know (<a href="https://books.google.de/books/about/Corruption.html?id=XdVKDgAAQBAJ&amp;redir_esc=y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://books.google.de/books/about/Corruption.html?id=XdVKDgAAQBAJ&amp;redir_esc=y</a>) (with Miriam Golden). Matthew and Ray sat down to discuss the classic question whether corruption always hinders development, which types of corruption are particularly harmful, conversations that inspired Ray’s career and Ray’s more recent work on the hidden influence of political connections. You can find all the referenced papers below: Professor Louis T. Wells (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_T._Wells" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_T._Wells</a>) whose work on Indonesia influenced Ray Samuel Huntington (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington</a>) who coined the idea that corruption may grease the wheels Moncur Olsen (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancur_Olson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancur_Olson</a>) who introduced the distinction between some forms of centralized corruption being like a stationary bandit while other less centralized are like roving bandits Andrej Shleifer and Robert Vishny’s famous QJE paper entitled Corruptionhttps://<a href="http://academic.oup.com/qje/article/108/3/599/1881822?login=true" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">academic.oup.com/qje/article/108/3/599/1881822?login=true</a> Benjamin Olken and Patrick Barron’s work in Aceh introducing the idea of a toll booth theory of corruption <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/599707?casa_token=FXxoxMmoqHYAAAAA%3ARSJD5IXWK31c7PjQO_vIuBlNTyZPOCRhiszsBLnTd_j0Sn8rbN5kPkO-aK4bj_zLiKYaHe0xBLeN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/599707?casa_token=FXxoxMmoqHYAAAAA%3ARSJD5IXWK31c7PjQO_vIuBlNTyZPOCRhiszsBLnTd_j0Sn8rbN5kPkO-aK4bj_zLiKYaHe0xBLeN</a> Shang-Jin Wei’s work on the varying prices of bribes <a href="https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/sw2446" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/sw2446</a> New York Times Article of mine collapse in China: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/world/asia/china-mine-disaster.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/world/asia/china-mine-disaster.html</a> Ray &amp; Marianne Bertrand’s work on hidden influence of political connectedness: https://gcgc.global/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/5.-Yegen_Politics_Ownership_compressed.pdf <a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180615" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180615</a>

78. Ray Fisman on types of corruption and the hidden influence of political connections

Tim Sullivan

Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan are the authors of newly updated and paperback edition of "The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office." Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. Tim Sullivan is the editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press. In this interview, we discuss why even illogical seeming organizational practices have purpose and how to renovate an organization without tearing the whole thing down.

0607 | Ray Fisman & Tim Sullivan

Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan are the authors of The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office. Fisman is the Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise and co-director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School. Tim Sullivan is the editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press. In this interview, we discuss why there is no perfect organizational model, the real value of managers, and why even Al Qaeda needed a little organizational structure.

0425 | Ray Fisman & Tim Sullivan