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Title: Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
ISBN: 1400078849
Author:
Moises Naim
Publicate Date: 2006-10-10
Publish: 2006-10-10
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Very good
This book gives you an insightful view of the new world (dis)order. Fact is stranger than fiction.
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2: Dense expose of the dark side of globalization
This is a dense expose of the dark side of globalization. The depth and detail of topics seems out of place for a book that can fit in your pocket. Illicit reads like crime thriller or espionage novel but provides tangible facts that are useful for the professional and accessible to the layman. The most pivotal quote Naim's assertion that "illicit traffic is about transactions and not products." There is a solution within this quote, one that shifts enforcement resources to blocking the transfer of money and contraband rather than the contraband itself. Illicit is a modern handbook of global crime trends that will leave you alarmed, disgusted and enlightened.
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3: TheDon
Interesting, but presents very little information that is not already widely known. The author's recurring "everybody-does-it" theme seems to reject the possibility that some cultures are much more prone than others to problematic levels of illicit activity.
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4: Any college-level holding strong in international studies, from business to social issues, must have this.
Unlawful commerce is changing world economies, influencing international politics, and even undermining some of the foundations of society: this is the argument of ILLICIT: HOW SMUGGLERS, TRAFFICKERS, ARE HIJACKING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. It's an essential discussion for modern times, surveying the links between seemingly-small illicit users around the world and how globalization is affected by their actions. Any college-level holding strong in international studies, from business to social issues, must have this.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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5: No Footnotes
I'm about a third of the way through the book; very provocative so far. Unfortunately, my copy has no footnotes. The notes are at the end of the chapters as you'd expect, but the numbers they reference are not in the text. Tends to complicate a serious academic reading.
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