Dark Commerce

“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 *

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.