RT Book
T1 Illicit trade and the global economy
T2 CESifo seminar series
A2 Costa, Cláudia
A2 De Grauwe, Paul 1946-
LA English
PP Cambridge, Mass. u.a.
PB MIT Press
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/661199258
AB As international trade has expanded dramatically in the postwar period--an expansion accelerated by the opening of China, Russia, India, and Eastern Europe--illicit international trade has grown in tandem with it. This volume uses the economist's toolkit to examine the economic, political, and social problems resulting from such illicit activities as illegal drug trade, smuggling, and organized crime. - The contributors consider several aspects of the illegal drug market, including the sometimes puzzling relationships among purity, price, and risk; the effect of globalization on the heroin and cocaine markets, examined both through mathematical models and with empirical data from the U.K; the spread of khat, a psychoactive drug imported legally to the U.K. as a vegetable; and the economic effect of the "war on drugs" on producer and consumer countries. Other chapters examine the hidden financial flows of organized crime, patterns of smuggling in international trade, Iran's illicit trading activity, and the impact of mafia-like crime on foreign direct investment in Italy.
NO Enth. 9 Beitr
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6441
SN 0262016559
SN 9780262016551
K1 Illegaler Handel
K1 Drogenwirtschaft
K1 Organisierte Kriminalität
K1 Globalisierung
K1 Welt
K1 Organized Crime
K1 International Trade
K1 Globalization
K1 Organized crime
K1 International trade
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 Konferenzschrift
K1 Wirtschaftskriminalität : Welthandel : Globalisierung