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In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial transactions. Drawing on the confessions of eight Mafiosi, Diego Gambetta develops an elegant analysis of the economic and political role of the Sicilian Mafia.
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Publisher
Harvard University PressYear
1996Print ISBN
9780674807426, 9780674807419eBook ISBN
9780674249042Index
Abadinsky, H., 277n10
Abate, Giuseppe, 173
Abbate, Pinuzzo, 65
Accardo, Stefano, 179
Advertising, 47–52, 129, 133, 134, 139–140, 143–144, 304n23
Agate, Mariano, 119
Aglieri, Giorgio, 299n56
Agnelli, Gianni, 308n2
Agrigento, 9, 248, 280n21, 281n27, 296n40; mafia families in, 249, 291n7; mafiosi in, 168, 170, 171, 179, 183, 247, 248, 281n6, 295n34; trial in, 217, 293n15
Alatu, Tanu, 207
Alberti, Gerlando, 122, 299n56
Alexander the Great, 133
Alia family, 134
Allegra, Melchiorre, 50, 139, 314n10; testimony of, 147, 263–264, 293n20, 294nn24,25, 300n62, 302n12, 314n10
Allen, Woody, 58, 281n5
Alongi, Giuseppe, 86, 299n57
Ambrosoli, Giorgio, 305n2
Amedeo, Giuseppe, 124
Andò, Salvo, 307n18
Andreotti, Giulio, 118, 183, 257
Anselmo, Rosario, 237, 238
Antimafia campaigns, 8–9, 130, 254, 284n20, 293n20, 295n36, 310n17, 312n3; and the church, 50, 280n25; and markets, 204–205, 207
Antonino, Buttacavoli, 148
Ardena, Mariano, 45, 49, 95–96, 247, 290n28
Arena, Vincenzo, 120
Arlacchi, Pino, 83, 105, 139, 226, 238, 292n9, 309n10, 313nn12,13
Arrighi, Giovanni, 87
Atria, Calogero, 119
Aurelio, Pino, 309n10
Badalamenti, Gaetano, 103, 163, 178, 234, 278n4, 283n16, 295nn30,31, 305n5, 312n8
Baiamonte, Angelo, 166
Balestrate family, 230
Banfield, Edward C., 78, 279n18
Barannikov, Viktor, 254
Barth, F., 148
Barzel, Y., 282n8
Basile, Gioacchino, 130
Beati Paoli, I, 131–132, 261, 266, 302nn9,10
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 129
Bertolino, Peppe, 312n8
Biagi, Enzo,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. The Industry of Protection
- II. The Industry in Sicily
- III. Protection in Practice
- Conclusion
- Postscript
- Appendix A: Etymologies of Mafioso and Mafia
- Appendix B: Descriptions of the Mafia Ritual
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index