Starting that “Our country might be corrupt” conversation Host Dr. Kasie Whitener, Clinical Assistant Professor, Management Department Guest Dr. Chris Yenkey, Associate Professor, International Business Let’s talk about corruption. What are the symptoms of a corrupt government? Are we seeing them in our own U.S. government? Dr. Chris Yenkey shares his research on the topic. Chris Yenkey is an associate professor in the Sonoco International Business Department at the Univ. of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business and a core faculty member of the Rule of Law Collaborative at the Univ. of South Carolina School of Law. Prior to joining the Moore School in 2016, Prof. Yenkey was an assistant professor of organizations and markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 2011-2016, where he was the John E. Jueck Faculty Fellow from 2015-2016 and held courtesy appointments in the departments of Sociology and African Studies. While earning his Ph.D. in Economic Sociology at Cornell University, Prof. Yenkey was a visiting scholar in 2008 at the Institute for Economic Affairs in Nairobi, Kenya, and served as associate director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University from 2010-2011. Prior to his graduate studies, Yenkey received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 2001 and served as a research associate in the Department of Economic Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City from 2001 to 2003. Topics in this episode include: Studying fraud, misconduct, and corruption in international markets What is the academic definition of and the indicators of corruption Principal/Agent conflicts in government agencies Injunctive norms and descriptive norms Petty corruption versus grand corruption Campaign finance laws and access corruption What voters need to do to rescue our country from corruption. To learn more about the Moore School, click here . This has been Moore Impact. When you learn more, you know more, and when you know more, you do more. Thanks for listening. Episode art from istock via undp.org Moore Impact is a product of the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. For episodes, notes, and links visit sc.edu/moore
