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Tag Archives: organized crime
Notes on the Sinaloa Cartel
From NYT over the weekend. Some of the article is hyperbolic, but I present the interesting parts here without comment. On logistics: From the remote mountain redoubt where he is believed to be hiding, surrounded at all times by a … Continue reading
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Tagged business, drug trafficking, drugs, mexican cartels, Mexico, organized crime, politics, violence
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The Politics of Mafia Marriages
One difficulty in international relations is commonly referred to as the lack of “credible commitments,” but could also be called “unenforceable agreements” or “the absence of contracts.” Rulers of monarchies figured out a solution to this problem several millenia ago: … Continue reading
Micro-Institutions Everywhere: Crime Bosses
The similarity between organized crime and government continues to impress me. The best short read that you will find on this is Charles Tilly’s “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” (pdf here) We discussed this topic a lot … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, economics, micro-institutions, micro-institutions everywhere, organized crime, politics, violence
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