International Political Economy Series: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse

Hirschfeld, K.

The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of racketeer economies into unstable kleptocratic states. The result is a new model that explains the expansion and contraction of political-economic complexity in prehistoric and contemporary societies.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349504367

DOI: 10.1057/9781137490292

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 176