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The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of racketeer economies into unstable kleptocratic states. The result is a new model that explains the expansion and contraction of political-economic complexity in prehistoric and contemporary societies.
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Index
American exceptionalism, 101–3
anecdotal terminology for organized crime, 16
antiracketeering statutes, 36
armed forces, politicization of in Cuba, 86–7
bailouts, 103
Batista regime, 91–2, 136n6, 142n11
behavioral ecology, Darwinian political economy, 125–26
behavioral economics vs. behavioral ecology, 49–52
frequency-dependent selection, 51
rational economic man assumption, 51, 62
variation in populations, 51
Berger, Peter, 145n3
Big Nowhere, The (Ellroy), 1–3, 13
black market prices, 119–20
Brazil, kleptocracy in, 82
Camorra vignette, 27–8
capitalism, 41
Castro regime, 136n6, 141–2n8, 143n13
cheating and systemic complexity, 54–7
cleaner fish analogy, 55–6
Darwinian political economy, 123
differential reproduction, 55
differential survival, 55
in economic exchange, 138–9n2
increased fitness, 56
natural selection, 56
variation, 55
chieftaincies, 111–12
cleaner fish analogy, 54–5
coercive resource extraction, 17
collaborative relationships with organized crime in Cuba, 91–2
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- What Is Organized Crime?
- Failing Economics
- The Evolution of Racketeering
- Organized Crime and Kleptocracy
- Things Fall Apart . . . and Rebuild
- Darwinian Political Economy
- Notes
- References
- Index