McMafia
by Misha Glenny · first published 1998
75% recommend25% neutral
"With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the world-wide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal trade accounts for one-fifth of the global GDP."--Cover.
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anyone interested in the how the Mafia has gone global like any other multinational I highly recommend McMafia (the book not the Netflix series) https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Unde... The Guardian writes "The effects of the Russian organised crime boom have been experienced as far afield…
on “How organised crime took over Russia” ↗Recommend Misha Glenny if you haven't read his work. https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Unde... https://youtu.be/r28674tI3uE < From 2008
on “Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm” ↗McMafia by Misha Glenny. Interesting read on globalization and organized crime as circumstances have materialized since the end of the Cold War.
on “What are you reading?” ↗…without giving credit - The Trouble with being born (Emil Cioran) - The Industrial Society and its Future (Ted Kaczynski) - The Technological Society (Jaques Ellul) - Propaganda (Jaques Ellul) - McMafia - A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld (Misha Glenny) - The Doors Of Perception (Aldous Huxley) - The Manipulation of Human Behavior (Albert D. Biderman)
on “Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?” ↗…https://euobserver.com/political/136664 [3] http://www.etf.europa.eu/pubmgmt.nsf/%28getAttachment%29/760... [4] http://www.dw.com/en/foreign-nurses-exploited-by-unfair-priv... [5] https://www.amazon.com/McMafia-Journey-Through-Criminal-Unde...
on “Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting” ↗Fascinating. Do you know any recent good books that cover the topic? I'm thinking something like Browder's Red Notice, but for China. Misha Glenny delved into China in his McMafia, but it was more about smuggling in the Fujian province, and its governor at the time: Xi.
on “Who Owns Huawei?” ↗