Congratulations to Yuen Yuen Ang for being featured on the Freakonomics Radio podcast!


The political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of government create different styles of corruption. The U.S. and China have more in common than we’d like to admit — but Russia is a different story, which could explain its willingness to invade Ukraine.


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