Narconomics : how to run a drug cartel / Tom Wainwright.

By:

Wainwright, Tom, 1982-

Language: English Publication details: London : Ebury Press, 2016Description: 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN:

9781785030413
1785030418

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DDC classification:

363.45

LOC classification:

HV 5801 W142n 2016

Summary: Everything drug cartels do to survive and prosper they've learnt from big business brand value and franchising from McDonald's, supply chain management from Walmart, diversification from Coca-Cola. Whether it's human resourcing, R&D, corporate social responsibility, off-shoring, problems with e-commerce or troublesome changes in legislation, the drug lords face the same strategic concerns companies like Ryanair or Apple. So when the drug cartels start to think like big business, the only way to understand them is using economics. In Narconomics, Tom Wainwright meets everyone from coca farmers in secret Andean locations, deluded heads of state in presidential palaces, journalists with a price on their head, gang leaders who run their empires from dangerous prisons and teenage hitmen on city streets - all in search of the economic truth

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"What big business taught the drug lords"--Jacket
"First published in the United States by PublicAffairs, a member of the Perseus Books Group, in 2016"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Everything drug cartels do to survive and prosper they've learnt from big business brand value and franchising from McDonald's, supply chain management from Walmart, diversification from Coca-Cola. Whether it's human resourcing, R&D, corporate social responsibility, off-shoring, problems with e-commerce or troublesome changes in legislation, the drug lords face the same strategic concerns companies like Ryanair or Apple. So when the drug cartels start to think like big business, the only way to understand them is using economics. In Narconomics, Tom Wainwright meets everyone from coca farmers in secret Andean locations, deluded heads of state in presidential palaces, journalists with a price on their head, gang leaders who run their empires from dangerous prisons and teenage hitmen on city streets - all in search of the economic truth

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