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The Winners of The Global Financial Crisis

May 3rd, 2009 by SocProf and tagged , , , , , ,

Because globalization always produced winners and losers and the current crisis will most likely increase / deepen the gap between the two.

If there is one thing that the Mafia does well, it is to take advantage of economic opportunities in times of social disruption and to diversify when necessary. Organized criminal groups are among the ones that very aptly adapted to globalization, along with transnational corporations and terrorist networks.

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