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How to Run a Drug Cartel

Public Affairs, 2016 подробнее...


Editorial Rating

8

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  • Innovative

Recommendation

British journalist Tom Wainwright regards the war on drugs as a failed, expensive experiment. In this intriguing business study, Wainwright acknowledges the drug-related violence in Mexico, corruption in the Caribbean and the overdoses in the United States. But he argues that society must find a better way to control narcotrafficking. Wainwright describes his travels to the cartel killing fields in Mexico, the coca farms of Bolivia and the legal grow houses of Denver. He sees Colorado’s legal cannabis industry as an alternative to misguided efforts to control drugs. Wainwright weighs all sides of the drug debate and concludes that the law-and-order approach isn’t working. While always politically neutral, getAbstract recommends his interesting overview to managers and policy makers seeking insight into the drug trade and the way innovation and profit thrive in the informal economy.

Take-Aways

  • The $300-billion-a-year trade in illegal drugs resembles the formal economy.
  • Legalization threatens to upend America’s $40-billion, illegal marijuana sector.
  • Legal cannabis producers in Colorado and elsewhere will take market share away from illegal producers.

About the Author

Tom Wainwright, formerly The Economist’s reporter in Mexico City, is the magazine’s Britain editor. He is a contributor to The Times, The Guardian and The Literary Review.


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    J. O. 8 years ago
    Wow: "Travelling from an Andean farm to a US street corner, cocaine goes through a 30,000% markup."

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