Systematic Corruption: Where government corrupts politics. Group of politicians create rents by limiting entry into valuable economic activities through things like monopolistic powers, conflicting incentives, or discretionary powers. The purpose is to build a coalition that can dominate the government and manipulate the economy. It prevents development because it cripples markets by limiting access to resources. Venal Corruption: Where economics corrupts politics. It is an unavoidable result of human nature. People worked to try to resist systematic corruption to protect government and prevent venal corruption. Gallman Reading: Research to find out if south was self-sufficient. Slavery was legal in the south and a large portion of the farms in the south produced cotton in the top 10% of farms. Gallman wondered if they produced enough corn to feed the population of slaves. Southern diet was mostly dependent on corn and pigs. Gallman estimates how much corn would be needed to feed the population and pigs and underestimates how much corn was grown. He concludes that the south was self-sufficient. Transportation of food from the north was still important but because they were self-sufficient, it was not as vital