 | Gianluca Fiorentini, Sam Peltzman - 1997 - 324 páginas
...(Prime Minister of a state in northern India) wrote in the Arthashastra (New Delhi: Penguin Books) that 'just as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison...not to taste, at least a little bit, of the King's wealth.' The quotation is on p. 281. 14 There is, of course, some economic literature on it but much... | |
 | A. Premchand - 1995 - 216 páginas
...of the king. Kautilya, the Indian philosopher-statesman, wrote more than two thousand years ago that "just as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison...not to taste, at least a little bit, of the king's wealth." He added "just as it is impossible to know when a fish moving in water is drinking it, so... | |
 | Vinod Thomas - 2000 - 300 páginas
...(1999); Claessens, Djankov, and Klingebiel (1999); and Stiglitz 1993. GOVERNANCE AND ANTICORRUPTION Just as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison...not to taste, at least a little bit, of the King's wealth. — Kautilya, The Arthashastra Written in ancient India more than 2,000 years ago, the Arthashastra... | |
 | Kancha Ilaiah - 2001 - 268 páginas
...About corruption he said, 'Just as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison that one may find on the tip of one's tongue, so it is impossible for one dealing with government funds not to taste.' Thus, the morality of public institutions that Buddha built into his model sangha is entirely different... | |
 | Timothy Lindsey, Howard W. Dick - 2002 - 244 páginas
...Report, World Bank, Washington DC. Chapter Six Reflections on Corruption in Indonesia1 Gary Goodpaster Just as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison...not to taste, at least a little bit, of the King's wealth.Indonesian pundits often say that Indonesia has a 'culture of corruption',1 or that Indonesian... | |
 | Bradly J. Condon, Tapen Sinha - 2003 - 246 páginas
...way the tribunal works" ("Eye on Investors," 2001). 5 Invisible Elephants Corruption and Cooperation "The King shall protect trade routes from harassment...not to taste, at least a little bit, of the King's wealth." — Kautilya "A dog with a bone in his mouth cannot do two things. He cannot bark and he cannot... | |
 | Vikram Chand - 2006 - 412 páginas
...the Persistence of Corruption ]u$t as it is impossible not to taste honey (or poison) that one might find at the tip of one's tongue, so it is impossible...funds not to taste at least a little bit of the King's wealth. Just as fish moving under water cannot possibly be found out as either drinking or not drinking... | |
 | J. Edgardo Campos, Sanjay Pradhan - 2007 - 480 páginas
...another, but if it fails, then the mandate still resides with the king. —The Chou, 1050-256 BC, China The King shall protect trade routes from harassment...not to taste, at least a little bit, of the King's wealth. — The Arthashastra, Kautilya, chief minister to the king in India, circa 300 BC-AD 150 In... | |
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Indian philosopher-statesman, wrote more than two thousand years ago that "just as it is impossible not to taste honey or poison that one may find at the tip of one's tongue, so it is impossible for one dealing with government funds not to taste, at least... 