A economia política da corrupção

The aim of this paper is to show that corruption shoud be an important subject for economic analysis and modern positive political economy. I sustain that one could construct general models of corrupt behavior with the notion of definition of corruption linked with the notion of institutions and incentives. Socondly, I discuss critically the weberian notions of public action to purpose finally, a political economy approach to the problem. The main conclusion of this essay is that economics and modern political economy could be extremely useful tools in the study of this social and economic fact.