ENGLISH

Mafia business: The Mafia ethic and the spirit of capitalism

By Pino Arlacchi

Book information

Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Schocken Books]
Year
1986
ISBN
0860911357, 9780860911357
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8389522 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
239\278
Time added
2022-01-23 01:51:31

Description

This book is an account both of the old Mafia of the Godfather and of its transformation into a network of gangsters and capitalists today, posing a major threat to democratic politics. The new Mafia combines large-scale business and banking activity with drug dealing, political corruption and widespread violence. Powerful, ruthless and rich, it has convulsed Southern Italy with a spate of murders. Its victims include an MP, a celebrated general, judges and prosecutors, policemen and ordinary citizens. It has turned itself into an entrepreneurial machine of a formidable kind, enjoying advantages denied to ordinary capitalist companies.

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