They say that in certain industries, Wal-Mart is effectively the only buyer in the industry. Out-gunned and out-manned, legitimate law enforcement on both sides of the border are left impotent. It is true that brutality is an essential part of the business: The coca leaf is the raw ingredient for cocaine, and all of the world's cocaine is grown down there in the Andes in either Bolivia, Colombia or Peru. So I thought it would be interesting to go and speak to this guy and find out how he ran his company. He is the author of IBSA: Drug cartels also look to diversify, as Coca-Cola and Disney tried to do, sometimes with variable success. 
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Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
It touched on a lot of relevant topics, especially in light of the new marijuana laws in a lot of states. Sure, I knew that it is a very profitable and dangerous business. So if there's some disruption to supply, let's say the harvest fails for apples or something like that, apple growers aren't able to increase their prices because Wal-Mart is the only buyer and they say, "Well, sorry, but this is our price and if you don't want to sell to us, well, tough.
Tom Wainwright initially came across as a bit of a pompous ass to me, but eventuallly that seemed to go away and I really enjoyed his perspective.
He covers how every single suppression policy has only moved the drug problem to another country, how the costs narconmics keeping all these prisons only go up an Must read, period. Jan 22, Blair Lochrie rated it really liked it. Please educate yourself on drugs and help make this planet a better place. This book is more like an introduction to narrconomics course, with examples drawn from the producers, distributors, and suppliers of illegal drugs.
The second concept relates to collusion vs. Cutting forei This book is more like an introduction to business course, with examples drawn from the producers, distributors, and suppliers of illegal drugs. February 15, 1: The requirement for a gang member to cover his body in tattoos declaring his allegiance to the gang make defecting to a rival gang out narconomkcs the question.
It did take me a First off: With a government plagued by corruption at all levels, the people of Juarez were at the mercy of the cartels, with nowhere to turn for help. His discussion of how to read the World Bank's Doing Business Index backwards to obtain a "Cartel Competitiveness Ysstem drives home the point that weak institutions make countries attractive for cartels, but may lead to the somewhat simplistic conclusion that strong narcono,ics are a panacea against international drug-related crime.
PR can work the other way, bringing folk-hero status to criminals and smugglers in certain areas of Mexico, through charitable donations and infrastructure projects that ststem a cartels image.
In recent years, many of the most violent gangs in Central America have declared truces and have divided up territory to try and reduce the horrendous amounts of violence occurring, for example, in El Salvador.
You do not need to be interested in business to get a lot out of this book.
'Narconomics': How The Drug Cartels Operate Like Wal-Mart And McDonald's
None of this suggests that Wainwright condones the work done by drug cartels. One of the cradles of any drug organization is prison.
Please add book edition to its right section. But drug cartels also have advantages over other global corporations. Finally, Wainwright touches upon the ever-growing power of the Internet, which revolutionises not only how legal businesses do their business but also how drug cartels operate, and brings attention to the issue of doctors sometimes being unwitting conspirators in getting their patients closer to being addicted to illegal substances by overprescribing pain medicationbenefiting drug cartels in a long-run.
By making it harder to cross the border, the service coyotes provide has become more necessary. Drug cartels employ many similar tactics as businesses when looking for recruits, although the tactics are obviously more extreme is some respects. One of the big advantages is that it has allowed the Zetas to grow much more quickly. As Cartels control the supply, there is little room for competition to come in and undercut prices.
Check out more of my reviews at www. By learning from the best, of course. He read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University, graduating in Other more dangerous drugs require a different approach, he argues, though still one that moves away from prohibition. What ended up being really striking was the reminder not that cartels were putting on a veneer of corporatism, b Wainwright, an economist sent to Mexico to cover the drug wars for financial magazines, decided to apply business analysis after hearing cartel honcho barconomics cartel honcho use business jargon to explain the trade--jails are human resource departments, there are franchises, there are advertising and media nraconomics campaigns, even price collusions with rivals if the incentives narcoonomics right.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book. ByJuarez was dubbed the murder capital of the world. Worth mining for arguments to deploy against your "shoot the Bali 9" National Party-voting uncle at Christmas, though.
To make that much cocaine, one needs somewhere in the neighborhood of kilograms of dried coca leaves.
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