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Based upon extraordinary fieldwork including interviews with scores of informants - smugglers, victims, power elites, and profiteers who populate economic war zones in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S. - this compelling investigation of crime, money, and power shows the sum total of extralegal activities as representing a significant part of the world's economy, and provides a new framework for understanding 21st century economics and economic power. With a new preface placing Global Outlaws in the context of increasingly globalized crime, including Internet crime, author Carolyn Nordstrom powerfully reveals the illusions and realities of security in all areas of transport and trade, and illuminates many of the difficult ethical problems these extralegal activities pose.

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An ethnographically rich, peopled account of the global economy. --Tim Hall Times Higher Education (06/30/2010)

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Carolyn Nordstrom is Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame and author of several books including Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century and Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture.

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