Corruption In The Novel How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia

Third party costs are defined as costs subjected to a third party as a result of a spillover effect from a transaction made between the first and second parties. This third party could be an individual, resource, group, corporation, community, ecosystem, etc. and these third-party costs can be made apparent by looking at polluted seas from factory waste, excessive carbon dioxide emissions from cars, radiation poisoning from a nearby power plant, or the abandonment of public trust due to corruption in the government. Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a “self-help” novel told from a second-person perspective about a young boy rising from a poverty-stricken rural upbringing to become a successful businessman in a developing Asian metropolis. And in this

Through the eyes of the main character, a character who both witnesses and participates in the fraudulent acts committed within his lifetime in a developing country, we are also able to witness these transactions taking place, presented to us in a way in which these practices are seen as both habitual and customary within their society. But judging from the state of the government and the state of the society in the novel, third-party costs are made increasingly noticeable, as consequences of these transactions are often afflicted onto the backs of those under and near the poverty line. These consequences are then reflected back to the state of the country- as seen with the government’s failure to meet the physical needs and safety of its population, the lack of government regulation, the nonexistence of public trust, the vastly unequal distribution of wealth within the country, and the violence erupting as a result of class