Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy pdf

Moisés Naím has been called “one of the world’s leading thinkers” (Prospect Magazine) and has been ranked among the top 100 global thought leaders by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute of Switzerland. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an internationally-syndicated columnist, and a best-selling author of 15 books, including “The End of Power” and “Illicit". In 2013, “The End of Power” was selected by the Washington Post and the Financial Times as one of the best books of the year. Naím recently published his first novel “Two Spies in Caracas”.
In 2011, he received the prestigious Ortega y Gasset Journalism award and, in 2018, won an Emmy award for his television program “Efecto Naim”. He was also the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine for fourteen years. Under his leadership, the magazine won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence three times and became one of the world’s most influential publications in international affairs.
Naím has served as Venezuela’s minister of trade and industry, director of Venezuela’s Central Bank, and executive director of the World Bank. He holds MSc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been a Professor and Dean of IESA, Venezuela’s main business school.

Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy pdf by Moses Naím

A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them. From illegal migrants to drugs to weapons to laundered money to counterfeit goods, the black market produces enormous profits that are reinvested to create new businesses, enable terrorists, and even to take over governments. Naím reveals the inner workings of these amazingly efficient international organizations and shows why it is so hard — and so necessary to contain them. Riveting and deeply informed, Illicit will change how you see the world around you.