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05810aam a2200505 i 4500 001 4D85ADACF5D511E7B33F7C0497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180110010212 008 150128s2015 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015001719 020 $a 1137490284 020 $a 9781137490285 035 $a (OCoLC)893451572 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCF $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a JC328.7 $b .H57 2015 082 00 $a 364.106 $2 23 084 $a FAM027000 $a PSY017000 $a POL023000 $a FAM027000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Hirschfeld, Katherine, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006018023 245 10 $a Gangster states : $b organized crime, kleptocracy and political collapse / $c Katherine Hirschfeld, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a xiv, 176 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a International political economy series 520 $a "Gangsterism, extortion and racketeering are currently viewed as deviant, pathological behaviors that are disconnected from formal political and economic structures, and often excluded from analysis in the fields of political science and economics. A critical reconsideration of organized crime reveals that the evolution of racketeering in systems of exchange should be understood as a natural phenomenon that can be predicted with tools from behavioral ecology originally developed to model the dynamics of predator-prey relations. These models predict the conditions under which unregulated markets evolve into hierarchical criminal syndicates, and how established organized crime groups expand and intrude into formal systems of government, creating chimeric 'gangster-states'. This book outlines the parameters of this process, and uses archival research to explore case studies of organized crime and kleptocratic state formation. A final section proposes redefining state formation as part of a longitudinal cycle of political-economic evolution that includes phases of racketeering, instability, collapse and regeneration"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Secret Vices -- 1.2 What is Organized Crime? -- 1.3 Evolutionary Stable Strategies -- 1.4 Case Study: Post-Soviet Russia -- 1.5 Gangs as Primitive States -- 1.6 Collapse and Regeneration -- 1.7 Darwinian Political Economy -- 2. What is Organized Crime? -- 2.1 Formal Verses Informal Economies -- 2.2 Organized Crime as Racketeering -- 2.3 Descriptive Vignette: Camorra -- 2.4 The Organization of Crime -- 2.5 Racketeering in Prison Economies -- 2.6 The Organization of a Stateless Campus Economy -- 2.7 Labor Rackets -- 2.8 Gambling Rackets -- 2.9 Prohibition -- 3. Failing Economics -- 3.1 Contaminated Markets -- 3.2 The Cold War in Economic Thinking -- 3.3 The Road to Friedmanistan -- 3.4 Experimental Vignette: The Other Invisible Hand -- 4. The Evolution of Racketeering -- 4.1 Behavioral Economics Meets Behavioral Ecology -- 4.2 Evolutionary Stable Strategies -- 4.3 Cheating and Systemic Complexity -- 505 8 $a 4.4 Racketeering as an Evolutionary Stable Strategy -- 4.5 ESS Thinking: Farming and Raiding -- 4.6 From Raiding to Protection Rackets -- 4.7 Supply and Demand -- 4.8 The Geography of Protection -- 4.9 Narrative Vignette: Raiding and Trading on the Steppes -- 5. Organized Crime and Kleptocracy -- 5.1 From Gangs to Primitive States -- 5.2 The Underworld as Prehistory -- 5.3 Territoriality, Leadership, Violence -- 5.4 Prehistoric Gangster-States -- 5.5 Early European Gangster-States -- 5.6 Mafia Branding: The Exquisite Corpse -- 5.7 Narrative Vignette: Under the Cartels -- 5.8 The Gangsterization of Democracy -- 5.9 Scenes from a Kleptocracy -- 5.10 Cuba Case Study -- 5.11 Comparative Vignettes -- 5.12 HispanÌola -- 5.13 Haiti -- 5.14 Zaire -- 5.15. Post-Soviet Gangster-States -- 5.16 Narrative Vignette: After the USSR -- 5.17 Post Script: American Exceptionalism? -- 6. Things Fall Apart...and Rebuild -- 6.1 Collapse as Conundrum -- 6.2 Progress and Underdevelopment -- 505 8 $a 6.3 The State as Exaptation -- 6.4 Secondary State Formation in Prehistory -- 6.5 Collapse and Regeneration -- 6.6 Grey Zones and Demapping -- 6.7 Yugoslavia/Bosnia -- 6.8 USSR/Moldova/Transnistria -- 7. Darwinian Political Economy -- 7.1 Research Redux -- 7.2 Evolutionary Stable Strategies -- 7.3 Darwinian Political Economy. 650 0 $a Failed states. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007004473 650 0 $a Racketeering. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85110279 650 0 $a Organized crime. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095528 650 0 $a Political corruption. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033057 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PSYCHOLOGY / Interpersonal Relations. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Interpersonal Relations. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Failed states. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01743190 650 7 $a Organized crime. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01047884 650 7 $a Political corruption. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069240 650 7 $a Racketeering. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086679 830 0 $a International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003098355 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/285/9781137490285/image/lgcover.9781137490285.jpg 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210024559.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4D85ADACF5D511E7B33F7C0497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search