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Dark commerce : how a new illicit economy is threatening our future
- Title
- Dark commerce : how a new illicit economy is threatening our future / Louise I. Shelley.
- Author
- Shelley, Louise I.
- Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 357 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. In this new world of illicit commerce, which benefits states and diverse participants, trade is impersonal and anonymized, and vast profits are made in short periods with limited accountability to sellers, intermediaries, and purchasers. Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalization fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of illegal trade--the markets for narcotics and child pornography online, the escalation of sex trafficking through web advertisements, and the sale of endangered species for which revenues total in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The illicit economy exacerbates many of the world's destabilizing phenomena: the perpetuation of conflicts, the proliferation of arms and weapons of mass destruction, and environmental degradation and extinction. Shelley explores illicit trade in tangible goods--drugs, human beings, arms, wildlife and timber, fish, antiquities, and ubiquitous counterfeits--and contrasts this with the damaging trade in cyberspace, where intangible commodities cost consumers and organizations billions as they lose identities, bank accounts, access to computer data, and intellectual property.
- Alternative Title
- How a new illicit economy is threatening our future
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-348) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the fundamental transformation of illicit trade -- Illicit trade: past as prologue -- The making of modern illicit trade: from 1800 to the end of the Cold War -- How did we get here? Drivers of the post-Cold War expansion -- The tragic trajectory of the rhino horn trade -- Business models: historical transformation of illicit entrepreneurship and trade -- Destroyers of human life -- Destroyers of the planet -- Summing up -- Conclusion: countering the challenges posed by illicit trade.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2174
- ISBN
- 9780691170183
- 0691170185
- LCCN
- 2018938103
- OCLC
- 1032588465
- Author
- Shelley, Louise I., author.
- Title
- Dark commerce : how a new illicit economy is threatening our future / Louise I. Shelley.
- Publisher
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-348) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2174