Palfrey, Terence, "Policy Design and the Problem of Fraud "Some Preliminary Ideas from Considering Fraud as a System Issue"", 1995
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This paper seeks to develop an evaluative framework for further consideration of policy design for government and business concerning the problem of serious economic fraud. Considering a resent UK pensions industry scandal and proposals for reform as an example, it is argued that fraud effects the integrity of financial markets and economic well being of society. It draws out of Traditional System Dynamics, Senge's Systems Thinking and Soft System Methodology an approach that link real world problem and systemic thinking in order to produce realistic policy initiative. The paper sets systemic thinking towards just outcomes in the context of legal, economic and political constraints, the eventual aim being to develop acceptable fraud prevention and detection policies at national and business levels. This work is at a preliminary stage and is attempting to take account of both logic based and wider socio legal analysis.