Illicit

How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy

De: Moisés Naím

Narrado por: Paul Heitsch

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 Naim 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. Naim 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.

©2005 Moisés Naím (P)2021 Tantor

Out date data

For a book that was released in 2021 there shouldn’t be so many statistics and data presented from 1999-2004 to the reader. I lost interest due to the continued referencing of 20+ year old data.