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Shelley, Louise I

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.--

Language: eng

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Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2018

Extent: xiii, 357 pages

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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

Isbn: 9780691170183

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Label: Dark commerce : how a new illicit economy is threatening our future

Title: Dark commerce

Title remainder: how a new illicit economy is threatening our future

Statement of responsibility: Louise I. Shelley

Title variation: How a new illicit economy is threatening our future

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Shelley, Louise I

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Language: eng

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.--

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Literary form: non fiction

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Black market
Crime and globalization

Label: Dark commerce : how a new illicit economy is threatening our future, Louise I. Shelley

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Dark commerce : how a new illicit economy is threatening our future

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Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2018

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-348) and index

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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

Control code: on1032588465

Dimensions: 25 cm

Extent: xiii, 357 pages

Isbn: 9780691170183

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

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System control number: (OCoLC)1032588465

Label: Dark commerce : how a new illicit economy is threatening our future, Louise I. Shelley

Publication

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2018

Copyright

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-348) and index

Carrier category: volume

Carrier category code

Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier

Content category: text

Content type code

Content type MARC source: rdacontent

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

Control code: on1032588465

Dimensions: 25 cm

Extent: xiii, 357 pages

Isbn: 9780691170183

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia

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System control number: (OCoLC)1032588465

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