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| Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
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Author: Moises Naim
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: 2006-10-10
ISBN-10: 1400078849
ISBN-13: 9781400078844
List Price: $14.95
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A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.
In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them. From illegal migrants to drugs to weapons to laundered money to counterfeit goods, the black market produces enormous profits that are reinvested to create new businesses, enable terrorists, and even to take over governments. Naím reveals the inner workings of these amazingly efficient international organizations and shows why it is so hard — and so necessary to contain them. Riveting and deeply informed, Illicit will change how you see the world around you.
Very good
| Customer Rating: | | This book gives you an insightful view of the new world (dis)order. Fact is stranger than fiction. |
Dense expose of the dark side of globalization
| Customer Rating: | | This is a dense expose of the dark side of globalization. The depth and detail of topics seems out of place for a book that can fit in your pocket. Illicit reads like crime thriller or espionage novel but provides tangible facts that are useful for the professional and accessible to the layman. The most pivotal quote Naim's assertion that "illicit traffic is about transactions and not products." There is a solution within this quote, one that shifts enforcement resources to blocking the transfer of money and contraband rather than the contraband itself. Illicit is a modern handbook of global crime trends that will leave you alarmed, disgusted and enlightened. |
TheDon
| Customer Rating: | | Interesting, but presents very little information that is not already widely known. The author's recurring "everybody-does-it" theme seems to reject the possibility that some cultures are much more prone than others to problematic levels of illicit activity. |
Any college-level holding strong in international studies, from business to social issues, must have this.
| Customer Rating: | Unlawful commerce is changing world economies, influencing international politics, and even undermining some of the foundations of society: this is the argument of ILLICIT: HOW SMUGGLERS, TRAFFICKERS, ARE HIJACKING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. It's an essential discussion for modern times, surveying the links between seemingly-small illicit users around the world and how globalization is affected by their actions. Any college-level holding strong in international studies, from business to social issues, must have this.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch |
No Footnotes
| Customer Rating: | | I'm about a third of the way through the book; very provocative so far. Unfortunately, my copy has no footnotes. The notes are at the end of the chapters as you'd expect, but the numbers they reference are not in the text. Tends to complicate a serious academic reading. |
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