Dark Commerce

How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future

Louise I. Shelley, Kate Harper

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Princeton University Press
21 January 2019

Globalization; Drugs trade & trafficking; Political corruption; Economics & Business; International economics; Political economy

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.

By: Louise I. Shelley
Narrator: Kate Harper
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9780691170183
ISBN 10: 0691170185
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 21 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Louise I. Shelley is the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy and University Professor at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, and founder and director of its Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center. Her many books include Human Trafficking and Dirty Entanglements. She lives in Washington, DC.

Reviews for Dark Commerce: How a New Illicit Economy Is Threatening Our Future

""Shelley unpeels [organized crime’s] disturbing dynamics today through case studies such as Silk Road, a vastly lucrative cybersupermarket, and the much-documented illegal market in rhino horn . . . and she lucidly lays out the dark economy’s planetary costs, as it escalates biodiversity loss and deforestation.""---Barb Kiser, Nature ""[A] useful survey of varying kinds of black and dark markets.""---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution ""This is an informative study of the vast and pervasive problem of criminal trade."" * Publishers Weekly * ""This is a refreshingly straightforward economic study."" * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *