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Show Notes
Santiago Tobón talks about why gangs govern particular areas, and what to do about it.
“Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance” by Christopher Blattman, Gustavo Duncan, Benjamin Lessing, and Santiago Tobón.
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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:-
“War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” by Charles Tilly.
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“Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development” by Mancur Olson.
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“Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History” by Douglas C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast.
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“The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System” by David Skarbek.
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“The Political Economy of Organized Crime: Providing Protection When the State Does Not” by Stergios Skaperdas.
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“Gangs as Primitive States” by Stergios Skaperdas and Constantinos Syropoulos.
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“Gangs of Medellín: How Organized Crime is Organized” by Christopher Blattman, Gustavo Duncan, Benjamin Lessing, and Santiago Tobón. (Working paper.)
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“Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments” by Zach Y. Brown, Eduardo Montero, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, and Maria Micaela Sviatschi. (Working Paper.)
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“Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development: The Role of Extortion in El Salvador” by Nikita Melnikov, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, and Maria Micaela Sviatschi.