TY - JOUR
T1 - ETHIOPIA: THE CONUNDRUM OF ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS
AU - Abebe, Teshome
N1 - THE CONUNDRUM OF ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS By Teshome Abebe November 14, 2014 Men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. -Machiavelli .
PY - 2014/11/14
Y1 - 2014/11/14
N2 - In an extraordinary book titled Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life, (1) Sissela Bok wrote about truth, deception, white lies, excuses, the justification for lies, lying in a crisis, as well as permissible lies and their consequences. The book was first published in 1978, and I dusted up my old copy to see what new insights, if any, I might glean from it to help explain the rising tide of illicit financial flows. It would have been incomplete, insufficient and a disservice to readers to attempt and explain the phenomenon purely in economic terms alone.
AB - In an extraordinary book titled Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life, (1) Sissela Bok wrote about truth, deception, white lies, excuses, the justification for lies, lying in a crisis, as well as permissible lies and their consequences. The book was first published in 1978, and I dusted up my old copy to see what new insights, if any, I might glean from it to help explain the rising tide of illicit financial flows. It would have been incomplete, insufficient and a disservice to readers to attempt and explain the phenomenon purely in economic terms alone.
UR - http://nazret.com/blog/index.php/2014/11/14/ethiopia-the-conundrum-of-illicit
M3 - Article
JO - nazret.com
JF - nazret.com
ER -