2 thoughts on “Narconomics: Corporations VS Cartels

  1. This story feels like a bridge between the org chart of a sugar plantation (from Dr. Elder’s presentation in class) and modern corporations like Walmart. Some aspects are common across all of the examples–divisions of labor, the ability to work your way up, something analogous to a franchise, etc.–but there’s only sometimes the palpable threat of violence. So, the management of a drug cartel is sort of like being a regional manager at Walmart and sort of like running a plantation, except that the plantations were following the law rather than breaking it, regardless of how many people got killed.

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