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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... come on, and keep the gadget hidden in my sock. As long as the light is blinking, he will be 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 ...
... come on, and keep the gadget hidden in my sock. As long as the light is blinking, he will be 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 ...
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... come directly from the mouth of a CEO announcing a merger. A burly Bolivian farmer of coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine, enthused about his healthy young narco-crops with the pride and expertise of a commercial horticulturalist. Time ...
... come directly from the mouth of a CEO announcing a merger. A burly Bolivian farmer of coca, the raw ingredient of cocaine, enthused about his healthy young narco-crops with the pride and expertise of a commercial horticulturalist. Time ...
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... come up with a total value for the stash of around $300 million. In the United States, a gram might cost more like $5, which is where the half-billion estimate comes from. The logic sounds reasonable enough, even if the numbers are very ...
... come up with a total value for the stash of around $300 million. In the United States, a gram might cost more like $5, which is where the half-billion estimate comes from. The logic sounds reasonable enough, even if the numbers are very ...
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... home in the foothills of the Andes. I have come to Bolivia to see for myself how coca is grown, and to find out more about the economics at the very start of the cocaine business's 9 Chapter 1: COCAINE'S SUPPLY CHAIN.
... home in the foothills of the Andes. I have come to Bolivia to see for myself how coca is grown, and to find out more about the economics at the very start of the cocaine business's 9 Chapter 1: COCAINE'S SUPPLY CHAIN.
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... come straight from the fields with muddy hands and in rubber boots. A union for drug farmers? Almost anywhere else in the world such a thing would be illegal. But Bolivia has a lighter regime than other South American countries when it ...
... come straight from the fields with muddy hands and in rubber boots. A union for drug farmers? Almost anywhere else in the world such a thing would be illegal. But Bolivia has a lighter regime than other South American countries when it ...
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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