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These complications were first noted in the immediate aftermath of the Prohibition era in the US by Walter Lippman in his now classic Underworld: Our Secret Servant, Forum, No. 55, 1931. See also Dwight Smith, Paragons, Pariahs and Pirates: A Spectrum-Based Theory of Enterprise, Crime and Delinquency, July, 1980.
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A fascinating dissection of the role of tobacco in the incubation of major European arms and drug smuggling networks is in Pascal Auchlin and Frank Garbely, Contre-Enquête, Lausanne: 1990. On the role of cigarette smuggling in facilitating the penetration of the Latin American market by the US tobacco giants, see Phil Shephard, Transnational Corporations and the International Cigarette Industry, in Profits, Progress and Poverty, ed. R. Newfarmer, Notre Dame: 1989.
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A survey of the impact of structural changes on the formal corporate sector can be found in Philip Mattera, Off the Books: the Rise of the Underground Economy, New York: 1985 and an in-depth analysis in Alejandro Portes, Manuel Castells, and Lauren Benton, The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries, Baltimore: 1989.
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There have been actual efforts to “measure” the impact of crime on GNP. In 1986, for example, estimates for the US President's Commission on Organized Crime “calculated” the value of traditional mob activities (loansharking, gambling etc.) at $ 50 billion or 1.1% of GNP. (Fortune 10/11/86) Needless to say such figures should be taken, not just with a grain of salt, but with the whole shaker.
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Some of these measurement exercises have employed direct survey techniques — with the obvious drawback that people engaged in illegal activity, if they have already gone to the bother of disguising their actions from the authorities, are hardly going to disclose them to an itinerant statistician waving a questionaire. Some of these exercises are based on extrapolations from the results of tax audits — which are not only partial but dependent on how effective the auditing process has been. And some have used indirect methods of massaging the existing (and flawed) data regarding national income in order to coax the underground economy into yielding its secrets, usually through heroic assumptions about the relationship between cash and bank account use. For a collection of some early work on these topics, one that abundantly reveals all these flaws, see Victor Tanzi (ed), The Underground Economy in the United States and Around the World, Washington: 1982.
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There is a large literature on this phenomenon. See, for example, Gregory Grossman The “Second Economy” of the USSR Problems of Communism Sept–Oct. 1977; Aaron Katsenelinboigen and Herbert Levine, Market and Plan, Plan and Market: the Soviet Case. American Economic Review Feb. 1977; Steven Sampson, The Second Economy of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Annals of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Sept. 1987; Luc Duhamel, Economic Criminality in the USSR. Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest Vol. XX, No. 3, Sept. 1989.
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These themes are explained in more detail in R.T. Naylor, From Cold War to Crime War, forthcoming in Transnational Criminal Organizations.
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India may have been the first coutry to take the problem seriously, and continues to produce most of the discussions of the “macroeconomic” impact of black market money. See, for example, Kamal Nayan Kubra, The Black Economy In India, New Delhi: 1982; Black Money, New Delhi: 1985; and India's Black Economy and Maldevelopment, New Delhi: 1986. Also Murari Ghosh, Black Money: the Case for India, Calcutta: 1979; Ram L. Chugh, Black Money and the Indian Economy, in J.S. Uppal (ed), India's Economic Problems, New Delhi: 1986; Ram Chugh and J.S. Uppal, Black Economy of India, New Delhi: 1986; D.R. Pendse, Black Money and Budgets, New Delhi: 1989. Also excellent is Mushtaq Khan's Potential Use of the Black Economy: A Case Study of Bearer Bond Schemes in Pakistan. Islamabad: 1989. Most of the Latin American studies have focussed on the micro side of the question —with the notable exception of those from Colombia where the social and economic impact of large inflows of drug money has been extensively investigated. See, for example, the work of Francisco Thoumi, Colombian Laws and Institutions: Money Dirtying, Money Laundering, and Narco-Businessmen's Behavior. Mimeo, California State University, Chico: September, 1989; Some Implications of the Underground Economy in Colombia. Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 29 No. 2 1987; and his recent Political Economy and Illegal Drugs in Colombia, Boulder, Colorado: 1995.
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The best known exponent of this view is Hernando De Soto. See his The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World. New York: 1989. The work has been lauded by some as presaging an economic liberation of the region (Fortune 16/1/89) and panned by others as simple-minded free market propaganda. See the excellent general critique by Sheldon Anis and Jeffrey Franks, The Idea, Ideology and Economics of the Informal Sector: the Case of Peru. Grassroots Development Vol. 3, No. 1, 1989. The critique by R.G. Rossini and J.J. Thomas, The Size of the Informal Sector in Peru. World Development Vol. 18, No. 1, 1990 calls into question the statistical basis of much of the De Soto eulogy to the informal entrepreneur. The most striking thing about De Soto's work is that he managed to produce a massive study of informal activity in Peru, of all places, while essentially ignoring interconnections between the cocaine trade and the growth of the “legal” underground economy. The politest word to describe such a study is “naive”.
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New Internationalist July 1987.
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This is diagnosed very well by Donna Plotkin, The International Traders of Haiti: The Madam Sara. United Nations, Caribbean Development and Co-operation Committee, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: 1989.
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In 1987 the “missing” component was put at $ 136 billion (Wall Street Journal 5/2/87; Federal Reserve Bulletin March, 1987); in 1990 the estimate had risen to $ 180 billion (Wall Street Journal 4/10/90); a study based on 1992 data put the “unexplained” portion at 80% of the $ 300 billion in circulation. Case Sprenkle The Case of the Missing Currency. Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 7, No. 4, Fall 1993.
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John Wilson, Physical Currency Movements and Capital Flows, in IMF, Background Papers: Report on the Measurement of International Capital Flows. Washington: 1992.
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Timothy Green, The World of Gold Today. London: 1987.
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Vietnam does not forbit the holding of gold, along with silver, platinum or diamonds, by private citizens, but it does require that such holdings be registered with the government so it can control their resale or export. (Far Eastern Economic Review 4/9/81) The $ 3 billion is the estimated value of unregistered gold holdings in 1995.
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Automobiles are a highly visible savings vehicle (no pun intended) and their use in Peru by peasants who are fearful of banks likely reflects the very low probability of effective state action in the wild and remote coca-growing regions. Interestingly enough, this is one way the cocaine economy increases government revenues since the municipal governments are heavily funded by taxes on automobiles. Edmundo Morales, Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru. Tucson: 1989, 102.
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Colombia's narco-barons were especially fond of Colombian colonial era works, so much so that when, in 1984, the government briefly made a show of hunting down the most notorious traffickers, the market for the art collapsed. (Latin America Weekly Report 18/5/84).
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Arkady Vaksberg, The Soviet Mafia. London: 1991, 123.
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Far Eastern Economic Review 21/5/92.
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Thoumi, Political Economy and Illegal Drugs. 161–2.
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Alexander Yeats, On the Accuracy of Economic Observations: Do Sub-Saharan Trade Statistics Mean Anything? world Bank Economic Review Vol. 4, No. 2, 1990.
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The literature on “informal finance” is voluminous. That dealing with the seedier aspects is less so. One of the earliest serious investigations of the loan shark business was by Lawrence Kaplan and Salvatore Matteis, The Economics of Loansharking. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, No. 3 July 1968. See also New York State Commission of Investigations, The Loan Shark Racket reprinted in Alan Block (ed), Perspectives on Organizing Crime, Netherlands: 1991. See also August Bequai, Organized Crime: The Fifth Estate, Lexington: 1979. The role of the pawnshop has been investigated thoroughly in several papers by John Caskey. See Pawnbroking in America: the Economics of a Forgotten Credit Market in Money Credit and Banking Vol. 23, No. 1 Feb. 1991 and Pawnshops: the Consumer's Last Resort (with Brian Zikmund) in Economic Review March/April 1990. For their role in developing countries see F.J.A. Bouman and R. Houtman, Pawnbroking as an Instrument of Rural Banking in the Third World. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1988.
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Such protection, though effective, can be expensive. In 1988 a courier for the big Brazilian money exchange houses was robbed on his way to the airport in Rio. Although the police arrested the thief and recovered the money, they deducted a $ 1 million service fee before giving it back. (Information on the Brazillian parallel financial market from Paulo Bilizerkjian.)
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France was also the pioneer of the “gold bond”, introduced in 1952 when the government tried to use them to mop up the war-time and immediate post-war accumulation of underground savings. As black market gold continued to pile up in France, throughout the early 1980s there were demands for the government to try again with an amnesty bond issue directed at both the underground gold hordes and the contents of rich Frenchmen's Swiss bank accounts. The hope was that, with the days of expected large capital gains from holding gold well past, the interest on state securities would prove more attractive. (Le Monde 20/4/84.)
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These parallel banking systems of India and Pakistan, while not actually created by the British imperial authorities, were encouraged and legitimized by them. Smugglers of money and goods were not only given carte blanche to operate, but the British even set up institutions (in Madagascar) to assist them during the second world war, in exchange for their role in conveying money covertly to British agents in German and Japanese occupied areas and in informing on both Axis spies and Indian pro-independence militants. When the British left India, they took the recores with them, bequeathing to the struggling new administration a sophisticated apparatus for smuggling money and goods just at a time when India was attempting to create a new, more autarchic economic structure with tight exchange controls.
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Black Money for Gold. Reuters 14/9/93. As critics were quick to point out, the reality was that the state had already borne most of the risk and expense of exploration, and the real effect would have been to allow tax evaders and other holders of black money to step into the production stages just the profits start to flow.
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The only way such a policy could really work would be if complete demonetization were followed, not by the circulation of a new currency, but the creation of a complete national electronic funds system based on debit cards — a change so extreme no country has seriously comtemplated it. For an interesting analysis, see David Warwick, Reducing Crime by Eliminating Cash. National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Rutgers: 1993.
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