- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Constable (15 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1845290615
- ISBN-13: 978-1845290610
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 595,532 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Forget about the Italians in Armani suits and Gucci Ioafers. The rackets you should be worrying about are mostly run by middle aged accountants and lawyers with terrible dress sense. It isn't glamorous, but chances are it is your money they are stealing." Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"
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We know all about organized crime. Blockbuster movies and books, and thousands of news stories continually tell an eager public that organized crime is what gangsters do. Closely knit, ethnically distinct, and ruthlessly efficient, these mafias control the drugs trade, people trafficking and other serious crimes. If only states would take the threat seriously and recognize the global nature of modern organized crime, the FBI's success against the New York mafias could be replicated throughout the world. The wicked trade in addictive drugs could be halted. The trouble is, as Michael Woodiwiss demonstrates in shocking and surprising detail, what everyone knows is pretty much completely wrong. Organized crime is dominated by employees of multinational companies, politicians and bureaucrats. Gangsters are a problem, but they are minor players when compared with the intelligence and law enforcement agencies that selectively enforce drugs prohibition and profit from it. The position of large corporations in the global economy provides the most mouth-watering opportunities for illegal profits. Woodiwiss shows how respectable businessmen and revered statesmen have seized these opportunities in an orgy of fraud and illegal violence that would leave the most hardened Mafioso speechless with admiration.
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This review is from: Gangster Capitalism: The United States and the Global Rise of Organized Crime (Hardcover)
An interesting journey into the origins of organised crime. Some of the suggestions or solutions could be regarded as very harsh however it is after all food for thought.
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