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Section 4: Shadow Economies & Financial Crime > Laundering Mechanisms

A Lesson in Money Laundering, Mexican Style

/ Worldcrunch (Carolina Saracho), 5 March 2013

Worldcrunch explainer on Mexican cartel money laundering techniques — useful for comparative mechanisms analysis alongside the FSU laundering routes.

Links Dossier — Official > Trafficking Research

ILO global estimates report. Note: the link you supplied goes to the ILO’s ‘Forced Labour and Human Trafficking: Estimating the Profits’ — the companion paper to the 2005 Global Report

Links Dossier — Topics > American Paranoia and Communism

A Fateful Error

/ George Kennan, New York Times (5 February 1997)

Kennan’s warning that NATO enlargement was a fateful error that would inflame Russian nationalism

Links Dossier — Topics > Critique — History

Harvey’s account of neoliberalism as political project; key text for understanding Reagan-Thatcher economic ideology

Links Dossier — Topics > The Blair-Berlusconi Nexus — Political Complicity and Organised Crime

A Big Push to Deter Corruption: Evidence from Italy

/ Antonio Acconcia & Claudia Cantabene, CSEF Working Paper No. 159

CSEF econometric paper on whether Mani Pulite created a lasting deterrent against corruption — finds the “big push” had significant but time-limited effects on Italian public procurement corruption.

Section 9: Corporate Power & Governance Failure > Big Four Enablers

23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism

/ Ha-Joon Chang (Allen Lane, 2010)

Accessible demolition of free market orthodoxy — each chapter dismantles a received truth about capitalism and its supposed benefits.

Section 1: Cold War Origins & Intelligence History > Five Eyes Formation

Thatcher’s government banned a book alleging GCHQ’s inefficiency and security negligence cost British lives — censors still hiding behind national security to keep findings secret.