The Architecture Of Illegal Markets

Author : Jens Beckert,Matías Dewey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198794974

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From illegal drugs, stolen artwork, and forged trademarks, to fraud in financial markets - the phenomenon of illegality in market exchanges is pervasive. Illegal markets have great economic significance, have relevant social and political consequences, and shape economic and political structures. Despite the importance of illegality in the economy, the field of economic sociology unquestioningly accepts the premise that the institutional structures and exchanges taking place in markets are law-abiding in nature. This volume makes a contribution to changing this. Questions that stand at the centre of the chapters are: What are the interfaces between legal and illegal markets? How do demand and supply in illegal markets interact? What role do criminal organizations play in illegal markets? What is the relationship between illegality and governments? Is illegality a phenomenon central to capitalism? Anchored in economic sociology, this book contributes to the analysis and understanding of market exchanges in conditions of illegality from a perspective that focuses on the social organization of markets. Offering both, theoretical reflections and case studies, the chapters assembled in the volume address the consequences of the illegal production, distribution, and consumption of products for the architecture of markets. It also focuses on the underlying causes and the political and social concerns stemming from the infringement of the law.

Author : Peter Reuter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Crime
ISBN : PURD:32754077568933

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Author : Jens Beckert,Matías Dewey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192514141

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The Architecture of Illegal Markets by Jens Beckert,Matías Dewey Pdf

From illegal drugs, stolen artwork, and forged trademarks, to fraud in financial markets - the phenomenon of illegality in market exchanges is pervasive. Illegal markets have great economic significance, have relevant social and political consequences, and shape economic and political structures. Despite the importance of illegality in the economy, the field of economic sociology unquestioningly accepts the premise that the institutional structures and exchanges taking place in markets are law-abiding in nature. This volume makes a contribution to changing this. Questions that stand at the centre of the chapters are: What are the interfaces between legal and illegal markets? How do demand and supply in illegal markets interact? What role do criminal organizations play in illegal markets? What is the relationship between illegality and governments? Is illegality a phenomenon central to capitalism? Anchored in economic sociology, this book contributes to the analysis and understanding of market exchanges in conditions of illegality from a perspective that focuses on the social organization of markets. Offering both, theoretical reflections and case studies, the chapters assembled in the volume address the consequences of the illegal production, distribution, and consumption of products for the architecture of markets. It also focuses on the underlying causes and the political and social concerns stemming from the infringement of the law.

Author : Peter Reuter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1568068832

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Organization of Illegal Markets by Peter Reuter Pdf

Author : Martin Bouchard,Chris Wilkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317987505

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Illegal Markets and the Economics of Organized Crime by Martin Bouchard,Chris Wilkins Pdf

This book showcases recent advances in the theoretical and empirical understanding of the economic aspects of organised crime and illegal markets. It provides new insights into defining and quantifying the influence of organised crime by drawing on innovative approaches to studying criminal networks and organisations such as the Hells Angels. The book includes analysis of the structure of illegal drug markets from international leaders in the field. Finally the text includes empirical case studies of the diverse markets where organised crime is currently active including the illegal market for crystal methamphetamine in Australia, tiger products in China and the falcon and fur trades in Russia. This book was based on a special issue of Global Crime.

Author : Peter Reuter,National Institute of Justice
Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1410217833

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The Organization of Illegal Markets by Peter Reuter,National Institute of Justice Pdf

It is widely believed that monopoly control, based on violence, corruption or risk-spreading, is characteristic of markets for illegal goods and services, such as marijuana and bookmaking. This essay examines the effects on the organization of a market arising from changing the status of a good or service from legal to illegal. In general, it can be shown that illegal enterprises are likely to be smaller than their legal counterparts. The most important reasons for this are the lack of external credit markets, itself a consequence of the non-existence of audited records, the lack of court enforceable contracts, and the need to restrict knowledge of participation in the enterprise. The inability to advertise or to create goodwill for the enterprise itself, as opposed to goodwill for its agents, is also significant. Corruption is likely to affect the organization of the market only under special circumstances, where there is a single agency which monopolizes enforcement. Though that condition held for most illegal markets thirty years ago enforcement now is fragmented and overlapping, which inhibits an agency from granting a monopoly franchise. The introduction of violence does not in general change this result. The use of violence to acquire market power can occur only where there is a ready focus for that violence. Most illegal markets lack either time or space consistency that would permit exclusion of competition. Some comments about the optimal use of violence are offered. The final section offers some analysis of the plausibility of using illegal market enforcement as an instrument of organized crime control. There have been systematic changes in the set of opportunities available to organized crime members; illegal markets no longer are so central to the power and income of organized crime. The shift from gambling to narcotics markets has also weakened the link between organized crime and illegal markets.

Author : Peter Reuter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Mafia
ISBN : 1568068832

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Author : Mark Roodhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199588459

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Black Market Britain by Mark Roodhouse Pdf

The first study of the underground economy in austerity Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including recently declassified material, it reveals the nature and extent of black marketeering in rationed and price controlled goods during the 1940s and early 1950s.

Author : Matías Dewey
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477321058

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Making It at Any Cost by Matías Dewey Pdf

La Salada is South America’s largest marketplace for fraudulently labeled clothing, a sprawling and dangerous bazaar on the fringes of Buenos Aires where counterfeit goods are bought and sold, armed thieves roam the nearby streets, and corrupt police and politicians turn a blind eye to widespread unlawful behaviors. Despite conditions traditionally considered inhospitable to economic growth—including acute interpersonal distrust, pervasive personal insecurity, and rampant violence—business in La Salada is booming under an established order completely detached from the state. Matías Dewey dives deep into the world of La Salada to examine how market exchanges function outside the law and how agreements and norms develop in the economy for counterfeit clothing. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic research and more than a hundred interviews, Dewey argues that aspirations for a better future shape garment workers’ everyday practices, from their home-based sweatshops to the market stalls. The book unearths a new configuration of garment production and commercialization detached from global supply chains, submerged in the shadows of informality and illegality, and rooted in aspiration and opportunity.

Author : Susan Pozo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019569867

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Price Behavior in Illegal Markets by Susan Pozo Pdf

The author analyzes data for three areas – drugs, foreign exchange and labour and compares prices in illegal and legal markets.

Author : Simon Mackenzie
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529203806

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Transnational Criminology by Simon Mackenzie Pdf

This pioneering study looks across key trafficking crimes to develop a social theory of transnational criminal markets. These include human trafficking, drug dealing, and black markets in wildlife, diamonds, guns and antiquities, The author offers an in-depth analysis of structural similarities and differences within illicit trade networks, and explores the economic underpinnings which drive global trafficking. Revealing how traffickers think of their illegal enterprises as ‘just business’, he draws broader lessons for the ways forward in understanding criminality in this emerging field.

Author : Simon Mackenzie,Neil Brodie,Donna Yates,Christos Tsirogiannis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315532196

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Trafficking Culture by Simon Mackenzie,Neil Brodie,Donna Yates,Christos Tsirogiannis Pdf

Trafficking Culture outlines current research and thinking on the illicit market in antiquities. It moves along the global trafficking chain from ‘source’ to ‘market’, identifying the main roles and routines involved. Using original research, the authors explore the dynamics of this ‘grey’ market, where legal and illegal goods are mixed and conflated. It compares and contrasts this illicit trade with other ‘transnational criminal markets’, such as the illegal trades in wildlife and diamonds. The analytical frames of organized crime and white-collar crime, drawn from criminology, provide a fresh perspective on a problem that has tended to be seen as archaeological, rather than criminological. Bringing insights from both disciplines together, this book represents a productive discourse between experts in these two fields, working together for several years to produce the evidence base that is reported here. Innovative forms of regulation are the most productive way to explore crime control in this field, and this book provides a series of propositions about practical crime reduction measures for the future. It will be invaluable to academics working in the fields of archaeology, criminology, art history, museum studies, and heritage. The book will also be a vital resource for professionals in the field of cultural property protection and preservation.

Author : Meropi Tzanetakis,Nigel South
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800438682

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Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets by Meropi Tzanetakis,Nigel South Pdf

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The digital revolution has transformed the selling and buying of illicit substances, upending how the market is policed and regulated, as explored in this book.

Author : Jean Daudelin,José Luiz Ratton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319762494

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Illegal Markets, Violence, and Inequality by Jean Daudelin,José Luiz Ratton Pdf

This book challenges the quasi-consensus that Latin American countries dominate global homicide rankings mainly due to the illegal nature of drug production and trafficking. Building on US scholarship that looks at the role of social exclusion and discriminatory policing in drug violence, the authors of this volume show that the association between illegality and violence cannot be divorced from the inequality that prevails in those countries. This book looks in detail at the functioning of drug markets in Recife, the largest metropolitan area in Brazil’s North-East and, over the last 25 years, the heart of the country’s most violent metropolitan area. Building on extensive interviews and field work, the authors map out the city’s drug markets and explore the reasons why some of those markets are violent, and others are not. The analysis focuses on the micromechanics of each market, looking at consumption patterns and at the workings of retail sales and distribution. Such a systematic micro-level comparative analysis of the workings of Latin American drug markets is simply not available elsewhere in current literature. These findings point to significant gaps in current understandings of the link between illegal markets and violence, and they illuminate the need to factor in the way in which those markets are nested in exclusionary social contexts.

Author : Philip Thai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231546362

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China’s War on Smuggling by Philip Thai Pdf

Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, contests between state and smuggler have exerted a surprising but crucial influence on the political economy of modern China. Seeking to consolidate domestic authority and confront foreign challenges, states introduced tighter regulations, higher taxes, and harsher enforcement. These interventions sparked widespread defiance, triggering further coercive measures. Smuggling simultaneously threatened the state’s power while inviting repression that strengthened its authority. Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China—its practice, suppression, and significance—to demonstrate the intimate link between illicit coastal trade and the amplification of state power. China’s War on Smuggling shows that the fight against smuggling was not a simple law enforcement problem but rather an impetus to centralize authority and expand economic controls. The smuggling epidemic gave Chinese states pretext to define legal and illegal behavior, and the resulting constraints on consumption and movement remade everyday life for individuals, merchants, and communities. Drawing from varied sources such as legal cases, customs records, and popular press reports and including diverse perspectives from political leaders, frontline enforcers, organized traffickers, and petty runners, Thai uncovers how different regimes policed maritime trade and the unintended consequences their campaigns unleashed. China’s War on Smuggling traces how defiance and repression redefined state power, offering new insights into modern Chinese social, legal, and economic history.