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Dark Commerce : How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future /

A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade. Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all hist...

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Autor principal: Shelley, Louise I. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction : the fundamental transformation of illicit trade -- Illicit trade : past as prologue -- The making of modern illicit trade : from 1800 to the end of the Cold War -- How did we get here? Drivers of the post-Cold War expansion -- The tragic trajectory of the Rhino Horn trade -- Business models : historical transformation of illicit entrepreneurship and trade -- Destroyers of human life -- Destroyers of the planet -- Summing up -- Conclusion : countering the challenges posed by illicit trade. 
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