A study that outlines a framework for understanding how local politics in countries around the world affect …, corruption, and other such factors. Risk Rules shows that globalization (and events like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and … affected by distant world events. Risk Rules lays out an intuitive framework for making sense of international economic and …

resultant prosperity. We also emphasize that enforcing regulations is a complex task given corruption, informal markets, and the … inability of citizens to cooperate and form effective lobbies. Preliminary calculations using data from the World Bank show that …