Book description
How can you be 'a well-known secret agent'? Why is 'the only voting
method that isn't flawed a dictatorship'? How is it that 'Corruption is
universally disapproved of, and yet universally practised'? The world of
dilemmas and paradoxes touch our lives on a regular basis. In The
Corruption Conundrum and Other Paradoxes and Dilemmas, V. Raghunathan,
the author of the best-seller Games Indians Play, shares the charms of
some of the more interesting examples allowing us to delight in the
excitement, mystery, confusion, exasperation and that occasional flash
of clarity and enlightenment often experienced when the world of
paradoxes and dilemmas hits our own. The book takes the reader through
some of the fascinating illustrations, classical and well known as well
as the less common examples, in the field of management, finance and
work life. Can two positives make a negative? Sample a charming little
paradox discussed in the book-the blackmail paradox. 'It is perfectly
legal if you gossip, reveal or threaten to reveal somebody's secret
(unless of course you are bound by a non-disclosure agreement). It is
also perfectly legal to ask that somebody for some money. But if you
undertake a combination of the two acts, each perfectly legal by itself,
with respect to somebody, well you are a criminal, a blackmailer!'
Following the same easy, readable style of his previous best-seller,
Games Indians Play, this new book should make absorbing reading and will
certainly make you more curious about the world that surrounds us.
