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Title	:	The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
Author	:	David Callahan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	January 26th 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Sociology. Politics. Audiobook. Cultural. Academic. School. Education

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages

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You're standing at an ATM. It can't access account information but allows unlimited withdrawals. Do you take more than your balance? David Callahan thinks most of us would. While there have always been those who cut corners, he shows that cheating on every level-from the highly publicized corporate scandals to Little League fraud-has risen dramatically in the last two decades. Why all the cheating? Why now?
Callahan pins the blame on the dog-eat-dog economic climate of the past two decades. An unfettered market and unprecedented economic inequality have corroded our values, he argues-and ultimately threaten the level playing field so central to American democracy itself. Through revealing interviews and extensive data, he takes us on a gripping tour of cheating in America and offers a powerful argument for why it matters. Lucidly written, scrupulously argued, The Cheating Culture is an important, original examination of the hidden costs of the boom years.

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Original Title:	The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
ISBN:	0151010188 (ISBN13: 9780151010189)
Edition Language:	English

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14 January 2004 THE CHEATING CULTURE: WHY MORE AMERICANS ARE DOING WRONG TO GET AHEAD by David Callahan, Harcourt, January 2004, ISBN 0-15-101018-8 Five years ago I was in Chicago to attend Book Expo. Early on that Sunday morning in May I was riding the Metra, heading south to McCormack Place. A guy who looked like he was still grasping the last threads of Saturday night had his boom box cranked up, sharing a soulful tune with everyone in our train car. As I prepared to leave the train I asked

Oof, the cheating culture and conditions that gave rise to it as described in this book have...not improved in the years since its publication. Painful to read at times with fifteen years additional hindsight. We are screwed, and thats because the system has been set up specifically to screw us.

This book sure didn't age well. In the 13 years since publication, the problems identified certainly got worse. The proposed solutions are still waiting to happen. Some of the specific people mentioned have, however, not gone unpunished (Enron, Armstrong, etc). It was an interesting study on who has gotten caught, how long it took to get punishment, and who gets an image rehabilitation after. I probably would have enjoyed this more ten years ago as a result.

I found the book supported my own antidotal conclusions regarding ethics/honesty in our society. It is fun to imagine a better world free from dishonest behaviorI suspect, however, that if the sole source of inhabitants are former residents of this planet, the population of such an environment will be relatively small. Our society has but minimal malice toward those who commit tax fraud, insurance fraud, resume fraud, fidelity fraud, education fraud, etc. Prison sentences are short and fines

It is so tempting to turn anecdotes into trend lines. Large publicized scandals often prompt journalists and others to start looking to broader trends in society, hoping to understand those events or provide deeper context. We want to see what comes next, what we should expect to see in the future so we can better prepare. That is our evolutionary proclivity. But it is erroneous and even dangerous to draw conclusions or try to persuade others based on a few examples or the latest media craze.

The book "The Cheating Culture" opened my eyes to how much fraud occurs not only in day to day things like auto insurance and taxes, but also in large companies that have scandals. Cheating in schools has become a bigger issue, as well as cheating in sports. The author explains some of these problems, and even gives solutions as to how people can fix and prevent cheating from occuring. Cheating on taxes has become a big issue in our country today. "Everyone's doing it", which means if your

This had potential for a compelling book however, the author used it more as a redundant attack and didn't expand into other areas of everyday Amercan life where I feel cheating is also prevelant. He came off as very anti-free market and angry. There are many flaws and thiefs in our current system, which is why I would have liked to see a better presentation of this information. Didn't leave a good taste in my mouth...