How Drug Bosses Learned from Big Business
How Drug Bosses Learned from Big Business
A review of “Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel.”
With El Chapo behind bars and America’s legal-weed revolution underway, Tom Wainwright’s Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel could not have come at a more pertinent time. Delving into “what big business taught the drug lords,” The Economist’s former Mexico City correspondent offers some needed context to the regionwide debate over drug policy.
Full of insightful analysis and statistics, Wainwright shows why the billions spent on the war on drugs have barely made a dent in the $90 billion global market for cocaine. The consumption of...
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