TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shelley,Louise I.
TI  - Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future 
SN  - 9780691184296
AV  - HF5482.6 .S545 2018
U1  - 330 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Black market
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Advertising
KW  - Africa
KW  - Arms industry
KW  - Auction
KW  - Backpage
KW  - Beneficiary
KW  - Bitcoin
KW  - Botnet
KW  - Bribery
KW  - Business ethics
KW  - CITES
KW  - Camorra
KW  - Child pornography
KW  - Cigarette smuggling
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Commodity
KW  - Competition
KW  - Consumer
KW  - Corruption
KW  - Counterfeit
KW  - Credit card
KW  - Crime
KW  - Currency
KW  - Customer
KW  - Cybercrime
KW  - Dark web
KW  - Deforestation
KW  - Developed country
KW  - EBay
KW  - Economic inequality
KW  - Economy
KW  - Employment
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Environmental crime
KW  - Europol
KW  - Export
KW  - Facilitator
KW  - Financial crimes
KW  - Fraud
KW  - Funding
KW  - Global Community
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Governance
KW  - Heroin
KW  - Human trafficking
KW  - Illegal drug trade
KW  - Illegal immigration
KW  - Illicit financial flows
KW  - Income
KW  - Insurgency
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Ivory trade
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Law enforcement
KW  - Malware
KW  - Marketing
KW  - Money laundering
KW  - Natural resource
KW  - North Korea
KW  - Online marketplace
KW  - Opioid
KW  - Organized crime
KW  - Panama Papers
KW  - Payment system
KW  - Payment
KW  - People smuggling
KW  - Pesticide
KW  - Piracy
KW  - Poaching
KW  - Politician
KW  - Private sector
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Ransomware
KW  - Rhinoceros
KW  - Sex trafficking
KW  - Sicilian Mafia
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Smuggling
KW  - Supply (economics)
KW  - Supply chain
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Tax evasion
KW  - Tax
KW  - Technological revolution
KW  - Technology
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Theft
KW  - Trade route
KW  - Transnational crime
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Vendor
KW  - Virtual world
KW  - Volkswagen
KW  - War
KW  - Wealth
KW  - World War II
KW  - World economy
KW  - World population
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction: The Fundamental Transformation of Illicit Trade --; 1. Illicit Trade: Past as Prologue --; 2.The Making of Modern Illicit Trade: From 1800 to the End of the Cold War --; 3. How Did We Get Here? Drivers of the Post– Cold War Expansion --; 4. The Tragic Trajectory of the Rhino Horn Trade --; 5. Business Models: Historical Transformation of Illicit Entrepreneurship and Trade --; 6. Destroyers of Human Life --; 7. Destroyers of the Planet --; 8. Summing Up --; Conclusion: Countering the Challenges Posed by Illicit Trade --; NOTES --; INDEX --; A NOTE ON THE TYPE; restricted access
N2  - A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade 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.Demonstrating that illicit trade is a business the global community cannot afford to ignore and must work together to address, Dark Commerce considers diverse ways of responding to this increasing challenge
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691184296?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691184296
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691184296/original
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