TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirschfeld,K.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse 
T2  - International Political Economy Series,
SN  - 9781137490292
AV  - JA77 
U1  - 338.9 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Political economy
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Political science
KW  - International relations
KW  - Development economics
KW  - Organized crime
KW  - International Political Economy
KW  - Economic Policy
KW  - Political Science
KW  - International Relations
KW  - Development Economics
KW  - Organized Crime
N2  - 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
UR  - https://s443-doi-org.br.lsproxy.net/10.1057/9781137490292
ER  -