Mafia business: The Mafia ethic and the spirit of capitalism - Hardcover

Arlacchi, Pino

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0860911357 ISBN 13: 9780860911357

Publisher: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Schocken Books], 1986

Synopsis

This book is an account both of the old Mafia of the Godfather and of its transformation into a network of gangsters and capitalists today, posing a major threat to democratic politics. The new Mafia combines large-scale business and banking activity with drug dealing, political corruption and widespread violence. Powerful, ruthless and rich, it has convulsed Southern Italy with a spate of murders. Its victims include an MP, a celebrated general, judges and prosecutors, policemen and ordinary citizens. It has turned itself into an entrepreneurial machine of a formidable kind, enjoying advantages denied to ordinary capitalist companies.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Italian (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Schocken Books]
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0860911357
• ISBN 13: 9780860911357
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 239