Comments on: Corruption Lecture – alpha version

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By: Brett Glass

Brett Glass — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:45:05 +0000

Professor Lessig recently accepted a $2M contribution to his center at Stanford from Google. Now, he and the inside-the-Beltway lobbying group "Public Knowledge" carry water for Google by promoting its agenda and interests, exactly, in DC. How is this not corruption?

By: Marat

Marat — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:32:43 +0000

Less government = less corruption
No. Less governmen = big corruption :)

By: oliver

oliver — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:12 +0000

Black markets are parallel economies or supplemental economies that exploit demands the legal economy doesn't meet, and most of a entire nation can be complicit in one as clients. Opposing values, opposing cultures, a loss of confidence that the system is on track to fix a problem. We have allegiance to a system, but only zealots are ready to go against the wall when the revolution comes or the mob takes over. A lot of corruption is bet hedging. Think of the decision to serve as a witness in the absence of witness protection, or how the culture of willingness to serve as a witness changes over time as a result.of sociopathy and government response. Traditionally we behave better and show a stiffer upper lip to hardship during wartime, and in part I think that's because it's easy to believe during war that the government is your guarantor. Absent that, testifying is liable to feel like a less worthy investment or risk to your person.

By: Shamnad Basheer

Shamnad Basheer — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:02:59 +0000

This is a very inspiring video. I just posted on this video (and its lessons for India and "transparency") in my blog http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2008/02/larry-lessig-on-anti-corruption-lessons.html

It drew a very strong reaction from one of our readers. See the "comments" section of the particular blog post.

By: Robert T Kowalski

Robert T Kowalski — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:47:44 +0000

I loved the lecture and am very glad to have come across an inspiring leader and agent of change like you Larry!

Corruption: why move to a federally-funded party/electoral system? There's many examples globally that show it still does not root out corruption (though the US political system is unique..).

Private money will try to find its way into the politicians/party pockets - whether directly or indirectly. People have circumvented much more complicated systems and laws than bannign private political donations

This should be looked at from the point of view of mechanism design, in particular focusing on lobbying, although there is no clear-cut answer (& we'll never find it). Looking towards the least corrupt societies in the world is needed - but the basis there is also cultural..

As you mention, people need a defender of their rights. i.e. a form of 'lobby' on behalf of the People - not Corporations/NGOs. Overcoming the costs of mass communication, network effects, and pooling the common causes/interests into a single, or few strong organizations, is needed.

In doing this education is a very important way to go (probably the best Long-term strategy) - K-12 reform, unified curriculum that educates responsible and aware citizens.

It's one of the toughest issues humanity has been trying to solve, and I hope you can change Congress - best of luck I support you all along!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:21:16 +0000

We're talking about corruption. Lets see if we can do some simple math for the liberal elites who know so much better than us and intend to use government to make us do what they know is good for us.

1) Power corrupts. I didn't make that up. I would think people smarter than me would have heard that.

2) Goverment is power implies government corrupts

3) More government = more corruption

4) Less government = less corruption

5) Please take all your liberal elite big government solutions, fold them 4 ways and put them where the moon don't shine.

By: Davin

Davin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:57:24 +0000

If you call Global Warming and easy case you haven't been paying attention. That is one area where the 'evil' voices may be right. Had it not been for that bit of pop science I would give this an A+.