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After Fan Wuxian asked the director. Only then did I find out that the matter of the public relations company was still exposed by the Americans.

That is, last month, the US Department of Justice decided to impose a huge fine of up to $12 million on the US Khalid Company, because according to the investigation, from 1991 to the 2,000th year, the Khalid Company's subsidiary in Shanghai, China, paid a total of $1.6 million in cash bribes to Chinese medical institutions and doctors in exchange for these medical institutions to purchase Depp's products, and Khalid earned $6 million from it, according to the US Department of Justice's judgment. Khalid violated the provisions of the U.S. Foreign Anti-Terrorism Act, which prohibits U.S. companies from offering bribes to foreign counterparts.

In this case, Khalid used a public relations firm to bribe a medical institution.

"If it's bribery in China, why would the U.S. Department of Justice investigate it?" Ziqi felt a little unbelievable after hearing this, and said in her heart that this American's hand is too long, and the name of the world police is not called in vain.

The director himself was not very clear, shook his head, and said that he did not understand.

Fan Wuxian knew the mystery, so he explained to Ziqi and others with a smile, "Now most developed countries strictly prohibit commercial bribery. For example, the United States has long enacted an anti-monopoly law to prohibit commercial bribery, and he has strict requirements in this regard, and he does not allow his company to obtain trading opportunities or economic benefits through bribery overseas. ”

"But I was surprised that the Shanghai subsidiary of Khalid was reported to be its U.S. parent company, which is a bit unbelievable," the director continued.

Everyone here felt a little surprised, it is said that the subsidiary profits, and the parent company will also get benefits, why the dog bites the dog's hair, this thing is really incomprehensible.

So everyone focused their attention on Fan Wuxi's body again.

Fan Wuxian smiled, and then said, "Actually, everyone is not very familiar with the situation in the United States, so they feel a little strange." Although it is said that the subsidiary makes money, it still has to hand over the profits to the parent company, but the profits obtained through improper means are relatively hot in the eyes of Americans. Because the parent company is worried that the subsidiary's behavior will face more severe punishment after being reported by others, it reports its subsidiary, which is relatively small in terms of losses and helps to improve its business reputation in the industry. ”

In fact, in addition to the United States, many countries in Northern Europe, such as Finland, have similar laws, such as Finland, which never allows domestic companies to obtain business opportunities abroad through bribery, which is strictly prohibited.

This is mainly because commercial bribery seriously deviates from the principle of fair trade in the market and undermines the normal economic order. The market has a unified market of fair competition, which undermines the principle of fair trade in the market and undermines the order of the market economy, which is a very serious problem.

Moreover, it undermines the principle of fairness and justice, and some people get rich because of bribery, and there are tens of millions of ordinary people below the poverty line on the side, which will make the people lose confidence.

The second is that commercial bribery opens the door for counterfeit and shoddy goods, and inferior products can pass the examination and approval as long as they pass the method of bribery, can enter the market for sale, and can sell more, so who will engage in good products? Who's going to innovate?

In the end, the cost of bribery by all these operators falls on the heads of ordinary people.

"As a result of commercial bribery, many burdens are passed on to consumers, such as commercial bribery in the pharmaceutical industry, and finally the prices of many drugs are inflated, making people feel that it is difficult and expensive to see a doctor, and these evil consequences are finally added to consumers, causing serious social problems." Fan Wuzhi said, "Commercial bribery is actually breeding and spreading in the whole process of social transformation, system transformation, and mechanism transformation. It is difficult to say that it is difficult to cure the root cause, but it is possible to reduce this situation by improving the system. ”

After eating, Ziqi went out for a walk with Fan Wuxi.

Today's weather is the beginning of July, this time is just the sun set, the temperature is more suitable, the two people along the lake under the shade has been walking slowly, the sparkling lake occasionally blows a cool breeze, people feel very comfortable throughout.

"Mondale is coming to China soon, you know?" Ziqi said to Fan Wuxi.

"Mondale?" Fan Wuxian was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, "Oh, that's the father of the euro, right?" ”

"He was the 1999 Nobel laureate in economics and the author of many economic treatises." Ziqi added.

Mondale is President Emeritus of the International University of Entrepreneurs, an internationally renowned economist, and a Canadian. He graduated from the University of British Columbia and the University of Washington, holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is now a professor at Columbia University.

He served as an adviser to the Monetary Committee of the Economic Commission for Europe in the seventies, was one of the nine advisers to draft a report on the harmonization of the European currency in Brussels, was a member of the Study Group on International Monetary Reform and was a long-time President of the International Conference on Monetary Reform.

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

"This is a master-level character—" Ziqi said to Fan Wuxian.

"You know a lot!" Fan Wuxi touched Ziqi's head and said with a smile.

Ziqi has studied a lot of economic monographs since she started an economic talk show, even if it is a glance and ten lines, she can leave a lot of impressions, not to mention that Ziqi's own quality is very high, how can she not improve a little? Therefore, after listening to Fan Wuxi's words, he was inevitably a little unimpressed.

Fan Wuxi thought for a while and said, "I also know a little bit about this person, but it is somewhat different from what you know. ”

"Really?" Ziqi asked with some curiosity.

Fan Wuxian nodded, "Domestic economists are roughly divided into three categories, the first type is the theoretical research type, which is commonly referred to as the academic school, the second type is the commercial type, which works for investment banks, and the third type serves the government and public interests. In fact, everyone can see some of the economic problems very clearly, but the first type of economists sit alone in their study and do not ask about the world. The second type of economists, because they are involved in the interests of a specific business group, do not want to offend one party, and as for the third type of economists, since they serve the government departments, they should be cautious in their words and deeds, and less respectful. They remain silent when society needs to hear them. Therefore, we must often knock on their sense of social responsibility and call on their academic conscience. Actually, as a public intellectual. Economists have a higher social mission. If all they can do is not tell lies and do not make illegal profits, then their value as public intellectuals as economists is questionable. What kind of sadness is it if the majority of scholars in a society are undaring, unwilling, and unable to tell the truth, and the few scholars who dare to speak the truth have no one to approve of or applaud? ”

"This is indeed the current situation in China, but what does it have to do with Mondale?" Ziqi asked a little puzzled.

"Mondale clearly doesn't fall into any of those three categories." Fan Wuxian smiled, "Mondale, who is already at the master level, has his own manager company. ”

Known as the most manageable master of economics, Nobel laureate Mondale has his own way of making money, and he has often traveled to China lately, saying good things about China's economy.

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

When commenting on China's consulting market, Mundell said that there are 500,000 enterprises in China with a scale of more than 10 million yuan, including more than 1,000 listed companies, while the penetration rate of management consulting is less than 5 percent. Therefore, he is very optimistic about the growth space of the industry.

His company allegedly charges between $100,000 and $1 million in China.

Mundell called this phenomenon of economists owning private firms, a combination of theory and practice, which sounds very good. However, when he opened a company in China to make a lot of money, and at the same time made a grand statement about China's economic situation, how can people distinguish the tendencies and authenticity of his remarks? Fan Wuxian said to Ziqi, "You must know that once there is an entanglement of interests, then the master will also bend his waist for five buckets of rice." It is as if the financial oligarchs in Russia, who have amassed billions of wealth in just a dozen years and quickly seized enormous power, are often surrounded by many well-known figures in the field of economics, who are tightly bound together and become a group of shared 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, the world is so terrible that almost no one can believe it." After Ziqi listened, she said helplessly.

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

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