In this article for Liberty Unbound, I examine corruption in India and why it cannot be understood merely as a financial or political problem.

I discuss the cultural foundations of corruption, the failure of imported Western institutions, the role of bribery and patronage in daily life, and why international organizations misunderstand India when they treat corruption as a technical problem rather than a symptom of deeper irrationality.

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