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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The U.S. government’s strategy of attacking the drug supply side is flawed and ineffective overall.
Chapter 3: Marijuana legalization is a significant threat to drug cartels.
Chapter 4: Drug cartels operate through both competition and collusion.
Chapter 5: Recruiting employees and ensuring they stay loyal aren’t just concerns for companies; drug cartels share them too.
Chapter 6: Drug cartels, like major brands, deploy social responsibility as a PR tactic.
Chapter 7: Both corporations and cartels employ offshoring as a way to increase profits.
Chapter 8: Franchising can be a double-edged sword for cartels.
Chapter 9: Manufacturers of synthetic drugs can create new products and continually stay ahead of the law.
Chapter 10: Cartels diversify to raise their revenue, often by expanding into human smuggling.
Description
Narconomics (2016) gives us a tour of the business side of the $300-billion global narcotics industry. From human resources to PR to franchising and diversification, these blinks show how drug cartels run their operations not unlike highly successful businesses. By exploring the economic phenomena at work behind the world’s drug problem, the author presents new insights into how governments can defeat it.
Who Should Listen
- Students looking for fascinating applications of micro and macroeconomics
- Readers interested in alternative perspectives on social issues
- Anyone curious as to how the narcotics industry really works