Chapter 1045 The Best at Deceiving People Is the Master

Dan Bing asked the director! Only later did I figure it out. It turns out that the public relations company contacted Shenchuan. It was exposed by Americans.

That is, last time, the U.S. judicial department decided to impose a huge fine of up to 12 million US dollars on the American Khalid Company. The reason is that according to the investigation, from 1991 to 2000, Khalid The subsidiary of the German company in Shanghai, China, paid a total of US$1.6 million in cash bribes to Chinese medical institutions and doctors in exchange for these medical institutions to purchase the products of the German company, and Khalid Company earned money from it. According to the judgment of the U.S. Department of Justice, Khalid Company violated the provisions of the U.S. Foreign Anti-Corruption Act that prohibit U.S. companies from bribing relevant foreign personnel.

In this case, Khalid Company used a public relations company to bribe medical institutions.

"Since it was bribery in China, why did the U.S. Department of Justice investigate and deal with it?" Zhang Qi felt a little incredible after hearing this, thinking that the American's hand must have been stretched too long. The name of the world's police is not for nothing.

The director himself is not very clear. He shook his head to show that he didn't understand.

Fan Wubing knew the mystery, so he smiled and explained to Fengqi and others, "Most developed countries now strictly prohibit commercial bribery. For example, the United States has long enacted the anti-base breaking law. In order to prohibit commercial bribery, he has strict requirements in this regard. He does not allow his company to obtain trading opportunities or economic benefits through bribery overseas. "

"However, what surprised me was that the Shanghai subsidiary of Khalid Company was reported," the director continued.

Everyone here was a little surprised. It is said that when the subsidiary company makes a profit, the parent company will also benefit. Why is the dog biting the dog's hair? This is really puzzling.

Then everyone focused their attention on Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing smiled and then said, "Actually, everyone is not familiar with the situation in the United States, so they find it a bit strange. Although the subsidiary has made money, it still has to hand over the profits to the parent company, but through unfair means The profits obtained are relatively hot in the eyes of Americans, because the parent company is worried that its subsidiary will face more severe penalties if its behavior is reported by others, so it reports its own subsidiary, which results in relatively losses. It’s smaller, and it also helps improve your business reputation in the industry.”

In fact, except the United States. Many countries in Northern Europe have laws similar to this. For example, Finland does not allow domestic companies to obtain trading opportunities through bribery and compensation abroad. This aspect is strictly prohibited.

This is mainly because commercial bribery seriously deviates from the principle of fair market transactions and undermines the normal economic order. The market has a unified fair competition market and undermines the principles of fair market transactions.

It disrupts the market economic order, which is a very serious problem.

Moreover, it destroys the principles of fairness and justice. Some people become rich by taking bribes, while there are tens of millions of ordinary people below the poverty line. This will cause people to lose confidence.

Secondly, commercial bribery and compensation have opened the door to fake and shoddy products. As long as inferior products pass through bribery and compensation, they can pass the approval process, enter the market and sell more. Who will produce good products? Who is going to innovate?

In the end, the cost of all these operators' bribes falls on the people.

"The final result of commercial bribery and compensation. Many burdens are passed on to consumers. For example, commercial bribery and compensation in the pharmaceutical industry. In the end, the prices of many medicines are inflated, making it difficult and expensive for ordinary people to see a doctor. These negative consequences are intensified in the end. on consumers, causing serious social problems.

Fan Wubing said, "Commercial bribery actually breeds and spreads during the entire process of social transformation, institutional transition, and mechanism transformation. It is naturally difficult to cure it, but it can be reduced by improving the system. It can be done. Arrived.”

After eating, Zhang Qi and Fan Wubing went out for a walk.

Today's weather is in early July. It's a good time for the sun to set and the temperature to be more suitable. The two of them have been walking slowly under the shade of the trees by the lake, with the sparkling waves occasionally blowing over the lake. A cool breeze. It makes people feel really comfortable all over.

"Mundell will come to China soon, did you know?" Fengqi said to Fan Wubing.

"Mundale?" Fan Wubing was stunned for a moment, and then he realized, "Oh. Is he the father of the euro?"

"The same Mundell who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1999 and wrote many economics treatises." Zhang Qi added.

Mundell is the honorary president of the International Entrepreneur University, an internationally renowned economist, and a Canadian. He graduated from the University of British Columbia and the University of Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is now a professor at Columbia University. He is the founder of the optimal currency area theory. Known as Oushi in the world! Cry to pay ※

In the 1970s, he served as a consultant to the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Commission. He was one of the nine consultants who drafted the report on a unified European currency in Brussels. He also served as a member of the International Monetary Reform Research Group and served as a long-term consultant on international monetary reform. Chairman of the meeting.

Professor Mundell is known as the father of optimal monetary theory. He systematically described what is the standard international macroeconomic model. He was also a pioneer in the theory of combining monetary and fiscal policies. He rewrote the theory of inflation and interest. , and together with other economists, advocated the use of monetary methods to address the balance of payments. also. He is also one of the advocates of the supply school.

"This is a master-level figure. Zhang Qi said to Fan Wubing.

"You know a lot!" Fan Wubing touched Zhang Qi's head and said with a smile.

Since Zhang Qi started an economic talk show, he has studied many economics monographs. Even a single glance can leave a lot of impressions, not to mention Zhang Qi's own quality. How could it not be improved at all? Therefore, after hearing Fan Wubing's words, I felt a little disapproving.

Fan Wubing thought for a while and then said, "I know a little bit about Mundell, but it is somewhat different from what you know."

"Really?" Huo Qi asked curiously.

Fan Wubing nodded, "Domestic economists are roughly divided into three categories. The first category is the theoretical research type, which is usually called the academic school. The second category is the commercial type, working for investment banks. The third category is the academic type. The first type of economists serve the government and public interests. In fact, everyone has a clear understanding of some of the economic problems, but the second type of economists sit alone in their studies and do not care about world affairs. Since the interests of specific business groups are involved and they are unwilling to offend one of them, the third category of economists, since they serve government departments, should be cautious in their words and deeds and speak less respectfully in society. When speaking out, they remain silent. Therefore, we must often tap their sense of social responsibility and appeal to their academic conscience. In fact, as public intellectuals, economists shoulder a more noble social mission. If they are not lying or making illegal profits, then their value as economists and public intellectuals is questionable if in a society most scholars are afraid, unwilling, and unable to tell the truth, they dare to speak. How sad is it that no one agrees or applauds the few scholars who tell the truth?

"This is indeed the current situation in the country, but what does it have to do with Mundell?" Zhang Qi asked with some confusion.

"Mundell clearly doesn't fall into these three categories.

Fan Youbing smiled and said, "Mondale, who is already at the master level, has his own management company.

Known as the most adept economics guru, Nobel Prize winner Mundell has his own way of making money. Recently, he often travels to China. I have nothing but good things to say about the Chinese economy.

However, some media have recently questioned the ranking of well-known Chinese brand companies produced by World Manager Information Company. It is said that this information company, which was founded in New York two years ago, is chaired by Mundell, and its customers are mostly multinational companies ranked in the world's top 500.

When Mundell evaluated the Chinese consulting market, he said that there are 500,000 companies in China with a scale of more than 10 million yuan, of which there are more than 1,000 listed companies, and the penetration rate of management consulting is less than 1%. five. Therefore, he is very optimistic about the growth space of this industry.

His company's fees in China are said to be between $100,000 and $1 million.

"Mundell calls this phenomenon of economists owning private companies a combination of theory and practice, which sounds very nice. However, when he is making a lot of money by opening a company in China, he is also making grand remarks on China's economic situation. How can people distinguish the tendency and authenticity of their remarks? "Fan Wubing said to Cui Qi, "You know, once there is a dispute of interest, the master will also give up for five buckets of rice, just like those in Russia. , the financial oligarchs who have amassed hundreds of millions of wealth in just a dozen years and quickly controlled huge power are often surrounded by many well-known figures in the economics field. They are tightly bound together and become a group that shares interests. . In our economic life, where will such a community of interests and the unspoken rules they follow lead society and the public? "

"According to what you say, this world is really terrible, and almost no one can believe it." Zhang Qi said helplessly after hearing this.

"You must remember this, the best person to fool is the master!" Fan Wubing himself said with emotion.

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