Narconomics: How to Run a Drug CartelPublicAffairs, 2016 M02 23 - 288 páginas Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the 300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola. And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might better understand how they work -- and stop throwing away 100 billion a year in a futile effort to win the "war" against this global, highly organized business. Your intrepid guide to the most exotic and brutal industry on earth is Tom Wainwright. Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. The cast of characters includes "Bin Laden," the Bolivian coca guide; Old Lin," the Salvadoran gang leader; "Starboy," the millionaire New Zealand pill maker; and a cozy Mexican grandmother who cooks blueberry pancakes while plotting murder. Along with presidents, cops, and teenage hitmen, they explain such matters as the business purpose for head-to-toe tattoos, how gangs decide whether to compete or collude, and why cartels care a surprising amount about corporate social responsibility. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them. |
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... able to track my whereabouts—or at least those of my right leg—should I fail to check in. In the cubicle, I quietly take out the tracking device, turn it over in my hands, and press the button. I wait. The light remains dead. Puzzled, I ...
... able to track my whereabouts—or at least those of my right leg—should I fail to check in. In the cubicle, I quietly take out the tracking device, turn it over in my hands, and press the button. I wait. The light remains dead. Puzzled, I ...
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... able to sell it by the kilogram. The Tijuana seizure was a whopper, and heads no doubt literally rolled in the cartel that lost it. But the $340 million blow to organized crime that most newspapers reported was a fantasy: the loss ...
... able to sell it by the kilogram. The Tijuana seizure was a whopper, and heads no doubt literally rolled in the cartel that lost it. But the $340 million blow to organized crime that most newspapers reported was a fantasy: the loss ...
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... able to defy the laws of supply and demand in a similar way to the drug cartels. Walmart, the world's largest retailer, has worldwide revenues of nearly half a trillion dollars per year. Its success is built on prices that seem not to ...
... able to defy the laws of supply and demand in a similar way to the drug cartels. Walmart, the world's largest retailer, has worldwide revenues of nearly half a trillion dollars per year. Its success is built on prices that seem not to ...
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... the two datasets they were able to see the impact of coca eradication on the price that farmers charged the cartels for their coca.6 If the supply-reduction strategy of eradicating coca plantations were working, Cocaine's Supply Chain 17.
... the two datasets they were able to see the impact of coca eradication on the price that farmers charged the cartels for their coca.6 If the supply-reduction strategy of eradicating coca plantations were working, Cocaine's Supply Chain 17.
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... able to shop around and sell their leaves to the highest bidder. That would mean that in times of scarcity, coca buyers raised their bids, and the price of the leaf went up. But Colombia's armed conflict is such that in any given region ...
... able to shop around and sell their leaves to the highest bidder. That would mean that in times of scarcity, coca buyers raised their bids, and the price of the leaf went up. But Colombia's armed conflict is such that in any given region ...
Contenido
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THE PEOPLE PROBLEMS OF A DRUG CARTEL | 53 |
PR AND THE MADMEN OF SINALOA | 77 |
OFFSHORING | 103 |
Photo Section | 125 |
THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF FRANCHISING | 133 |
ORDERING A LINE ONLINE | 167 |
DIVERSIFYING INTO NEW MARKETS | 193 |
COMING FULL CIRCLE | 215 |
WHY ECONOMISTS MAKE THE BEST POLICE OFFICERS | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 255 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 267 |
INNOVATING AHEADOF THE LAW | 149 |
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