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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... become clear. Colombian cocaine manufacturers have protected their profits by tightening control of their supply chains, along the same lines as Walmart. Mexican cartels have expanded on a franchise basis, with the same success as ...
... become clear. Colombian cocaine manufacturers have protected their profits by tightening control of their supply chains, along the same lines as Walmart. Mexican cartels have expanded on a franchise basis, with the same success as ...
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... becomes covered, first with moss and then with a thick green blanket of ferns. I focus on the view across the valley, trying to take my mind off the Yungas Road, which is utterly terrifying. Known locally as the camino de la muerte, or ...
... becomes covered, first with moss and then with a thick green blanket of ferns. I focus on the view across the valley, trying to take my mind off the Yungas Road, which is utterly terrifying. Known locally as the camino de la muerte, or ...
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... become really valuable. As we shall see in the next chapter, that is also the point at which cartels consider it worth going to war. Chapter 2 COMPETITION VS. COLLUSION Why Merger Is Sometimes Better Cocaine's Supply Chain 27.
... become really valuable. As we shall see in the next chapter, that is also the point at which cartels consider it worth going to war. Chapter 2 COMPETITION VS. COLLUSION Why Merger Is Sometimes Better Cocaine's Supply Chain 27.
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... have done their best to make the border harder to cross. Since the 9/11 attacks, in particular, US borders have become more tightly policed (to the irritation of legitimate businesspeople as well as crooks: “El 32 Narconomics.
... have done their best to make the border harder to cross. Since the 9/11 attacks, in particular, US borders have become more tightly policed (to the irritation of legitimate businesspeople as well as crooks: “El 32 Narconomics.
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... become more valuable. The 2,000-mile frontier between Mexico and the world's largest drugmarket has only forty-seven official border crossings—and of those, the largest half-dozen or so dwarf the rest in terms of the number of trucks ...
... become more valuable. The 2,000-mile frontier between Mexico and the world's largest drugmarket has only forty-seven official border crossings—and of those, the largest half-dozen or so dwarf the rest in terms of the number of trucks ...
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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