Mir Èkonomiki i Upravleniâ (Mar 2016)

CORRUPTION AS ASPECT OF THE PHENOMENON «FIASCO OF THE MARKET MECHANISM»

  • Komarov V. F.,
  • Morozova N. A.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25205/2542-0429-2016-16-1-74-85
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16 (1)
pp. 74 – 85

Abstract

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The description of essence of the phenomenon of «fiasco of a market mechanism» (failures of the market) is given. It is investigated the reasons of this phenomenon in a look (and) positive and negative outer effects (eksternaliya) of the market transaction (i. e. emergence of harm / advantage to other members of society from the transaction), it is specified that the sold goods (would) have character of the public bene-fit, i.e. use of this benefit of one member of society is equivalent to that, as other members of society are consumers of this benefit; or (in) about the insufficient competition, including, about monopoly, and also about the high level of corruption in national economy. The concept «corruption», through the concept «rent» reveals. Types of corruption acts are considered. The statement that corruption is an important aspect of fiasco of a market mechanism is formulated, often being the reason of failures of the market. In article this fact is discovered through consideration of set of schemes of influence of corruption on de-crease in efficiency of operation of the market mechanism. It is shown that corruption has the following negative consequences: (a) corruption expenses join in the prices, deforming the pricing mechanism; (b) corruption means unequal conditions for participants of the market; (c) corrupt officials unfairly drive honest businessmen out of the market; (d) corruption corrupts participants of economic activity; (e) these reasons of corruption acts have a consequence delay of economic development of the country, deform structure of society, reduce the level of personnel capacity of the country, slow down rates of NTP, cause a loss to public morals, reduce image of the country. In article the scheme of research of corruption Is stated by method of business games. By results of the made game experiments basic provisions of the concept of system of counteraction of corruption are formulated.

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