"How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola"--Back cover.
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"How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola"--Back cover.
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Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a "a lively and engaging book, informed by both dogged reporting and gleanings from academic research" (The Washington Post)
How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola.
In Narconomics, Tom Wainwright is an intrepid guide to the most exotic and brutal industry on earth. Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, and communities where the cartels rule, Wainwright offers a vivid, fresh, and innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a keen and daring blueprint for how to defeat them.
Critic Reviews
“"[Wainwright's] book is courageous on several levels... [he] challenges everyone at once--the dealers, the drug czars, and the bystanders in between. A daring work of investigative journalism and a well-reasoned argument for smarter drug policies."-- Kirkus Reviews”
"[Tom Wainwright] brings a fine and balanced analytical mind to some very good research. By looking at the drug trade as a business, Wainwright is able to reveal much about why it wreaks such havoc in Central and South America. Wainwright show[s] how drug violence is not so much senseless but the devastating result of economic calculations taken to their brutal extreme. [His] conclusion is titled 'Why Economists Make the Best Police Officers.' It is one of the pithiest and most persuasive arguments for drug law reform I have ever read."--Misha Glenny, New York Times Sunday Book Review
"A cracking read... both an extended black joke and a hard-headed analysis of the economics of getting high."--Reuters
"A lively and engaging book, informed by both dogged reporting and gleanings from academic research..."--Wall Street Journal
"An economics book for the Breaking Bad generation"--Times (London)
"Readers interested in the intersection of crime, economics, entrepreneurship, and law enforcement will find this work fascinating."--Library Journal
"Tom Wainwright has powerfully argued in favor of legalizing drugs. He says that the policies aimed at stifling the drug trade seem to be misdirected and have failed... a controversial but well-argued book... a must-read for everyone interested in solving the drug issue. Wainwright makes a lot of sense at a time when the world seems helpless against drug traffickers."--Washington Book Review
"Tom Wainwright of the Economist brings a fine and balanced analytical mind to some very good research"--Minneapolis Star Tribune
About the Author
Tom Wainwright is the media editor of the Economist. Until 2013 he was the Mexico City bureau chief, covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, as well as parts of South America and the United States border region. Wainwright has been a commentator on the drugs business on CNN, the BBC and NPR, among others. He has a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. Wainwright lives in England.
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