Prologue: A Tale of Two Tilts

Daniel Friedman and Daniel McNeill

A chapter in Morals and Markets, 2013, pp 1-6 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Mikhail Gorbachev was relaxing in his lavish villa in the Crimea at 4:50 pm on August 18, 1991, when he learned he had visitors. One was a secret police official. He picked up his phone to see who the others were, but the line was dead. He tried others. They were all dead. He had heard murmurings of a coup before taking this vacation, but had waved them away. Now he gazed around at his palace, with its marble stairways and escalator down to the Black Sea, and felt dread.

Keywords: Organize Crime; Shadow Economy; Foreign Partner; Export Control; Secret Police (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33152-6_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137331526

DOI: 10.1057/9781137331526_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().