568: Tom Wainwright | Narconomics

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Tom Wainwright (@t_wainwright) of The Economist shares the harrowing and sometimes grisly experiences he endured to write Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel.

The Cheat Sheet:
  • Understand the parallels between the drug trade and regular businesses.
  • Learn how ideas of economics and business apply to any entrepreneurial or business venture.
  • Discover how drug cartels engage in corporate social responsibility, branding, and even PR campaigns.
  • Hear why drug cartels franchise, regulate labor, branch out online, and diversify into legal (and ubiquitous) industries.
  • Perhaps most intriguing of all: find out how an economist gets discovered wearing a GPS device to a meeting with a drug lord and lives to tell the tale!
  • And so much more...

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