Foreword by Prof. Peter Fuchs

1. Negotiation Needs: Individual and Person, Organization and Network, Morality, Promises and Threats - Trust and Distrust, Power, Crime, Illegality, Corruption, Imitation and Rivalry.

2. "Premature Birth" - A History of Corruption: Mesopotamia, Fate and Guilt, Testimony and Betrayal, Gift and Revenge, Familiar and Unfamiliar, Animated and Inanimate, Creation and Destruction, Fate and Iniquity, Sacrifice and Interpretation of Signs, Ritual, Innocently Guilty, Negotiation of Guilt, Magic and Trance, Sorcery and Witchcraft, Iniquity and Law, Slaughterhouse, Audience, Procedure and Negotiation, Divine Counsel, the Poor Man of Nippur, Clay Stones, Cuneiform, Forgery, the Caravan.

3. The Middle Ages and Early Modernity of Corruption: Households, Patrons, Clients and Networks, Perfection and Corruption, Gifts, Rent, Practice, Public Good and Self-Interest, Revenge and Wergild, Salvation and Damnation, Indulgence, Exchange, Bribery, Monetary Economy, Rumor, Inquisition, Rent, Printing Press, Technology and Art.

4. The Modernity of Corruption: Functionalization, Greed, Performance, Seduction, Form, Medium, Symbol, Scarcity, Bribery, Extortion, Gray Areas, Procedure, Negotiation, Conflict, Corruption, Intertwining, Compatibility of the Incompatible, Code Sabotage, Networks, Rivalry Partnership, Interview R.G. Vogel, Evolution, Self-Subversive Society.

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