L'impresa mafiosa: i risultati economici della criminalità organizzata e il ruolo delle politiche pubbliche

Mafia Business: economic performances of the organised crime and the role of the public policies

Alberto Suppa ()

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Abstract: The Tenth Annual Report published by "Sos Impresa", an Antiracket Association, notices that the organized crime is ah heavy "ballast" in the Southern Italian Economy: "Mafia Business makes annual revenues for 90 mln €, about the 6% ofItalian GDP". This work presents a reading of the organized crime under two perspectives: on one hand, the Becker's theory suggests an important role of the public security expending in the battle between the State and organized crime; on the other hand, the trust that Mafia tries toimpose in market relations, according Zamagni and Sen's contributes, makes Mafia an important social player in many economic backward countries.

Keywords: Mafia; organized crime; trust; conflict; Southern Italy; Amartya Sen; Gary becker; Calabria; Sicilia; Adam Smith; monopoly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A13 A14 D20 D21 D43 H50 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-05-05
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Published in notizie di POLITEIA 89 ISSN 1128-2401 (2008): pp. 351-360

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