Keywords
contracts
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Abstract
Public contracting in Colombia is conflicting, inefficient that cause patrimonial damage to the State. The mechanism of the damage is double. The employees responsible for the contracting show negligence which later is condemned in the court. Second mechanism is the corruption. The legal system is impotent because the contracting involves transactions with high transaction costs. The paper suggests that the only way to make contracting efficient is to moralize it. The catholic social doctrine could be useful taking into account the 400 years of the jesuit tradition in Colombia. The document identifies the institutional obstacles that are to be removed to allow the moralization of the public contracting.
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