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On the shady side of economics
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences | Vol 2, No 2 | a2574 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v2i2.2574
| © 2018 J. H. van Heerden, J. N. Blignaut, N. S. Groenendijk
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 03 July 2018 | Published: 30 June 1999
Submitted: 03 July 2018 | Published: 30 June 1999
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J. H. van Heerden, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, South AfricaJ. N. Blignaut, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, South Africa
N. S. Groenendijk, University of Twente, Netherlands; and University of Pretoria, South Africa
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This paper explains fraud from an economic point of view, using traditional economic tools and reasoning. It is shown how a supply-of-fraud function can be defined and estimated for individuals, and subsequently aggregated to derive crime rates for societies. Another approach is to explain the behaviour of fraudsters as rent-seekers, à la mode Gary Becker, and the problem of fraud may be seen as a case of market failure too. The paper also discusses some effects of fraud on society, and gives an empirical comparison between countries.
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