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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... carrying, and where it comes from. Coca farmers are tolerated, or even celebrated, in Bolivia, whose president, Evo Morales, is himself a former cocalero, as the growers are known. Breaking all sorts of laws, he once tookbags of coca to ...
... carrying, and where it comes from. Coca farmers are tolerated, or even celebrated, in Bolivia, whose president, Evo Morales, is himself a former cocalero, as the growers are known. Breaking all sorts of laws, he once tookbags of coca to ...
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... carried by their mothers. Conditions elsewhere in the Andes are no richer: the United Nations estimates that in Colombia, the average coca farmer earns little more than $2 per day. The destitution of coca growers is starkly at odds with ...
... carried by their mothers. Conditions elsewhere in the Andes are no richer: the United Nations estimates that in Colombia, the average coca farmer earns little more than $2 per day. The destitution of coca growers is starkly at odds with ...
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... carried out for decades. But recently the cartels' research and development engineers have struck gold. “The process has changed dramatically. They are using new chemical precursors, and new machinery,” César Guedes says. Some of the ...
... carried out for decades. But recently the cartels' research and development engineers have struck gold. “The process has changed dramatically. They are using new chemical precursors, and new machinery,” César Guedes says. Some of the ...
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... carry out tit-for-tat killings in the country's slums every day. But in 2012, something extraordinary happened. Within the space of only a few days, peace broke out. The murder rate fell by two-thirds, after the country's two main ...
... carry out tit-for-tat killings in the country's slums every day. But in 2012, something extraordinary happened. Within the space of only a few days, peace broke out. The murder rate fell by two-thirds, after the country's two main ...
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... carry out a corporate takeover, cartels are like ordinary businesses in that they need to satisfy competition regulators that the deal should go ahead. The main regulators of the drugs industry are the police. They are the ones whose ...
... carry out a corporate takeover, cartels are like ordinary businesses in that they need to satisfy competition regulators that the deal should go ahead. The main regulators of the drugs industry are the police. They are the ones whose ...
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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