387: Tom Wainwright | How to Run a Drug Cartel
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Tom Wainwright (@t_wainwright) of The Economist shares the harrowing and sometimes grisly experiences he endured while writing Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel.
What We Discuss with Tom Wainwright:- The parallels between the drug trade and regular businesses.
- How ideas of economics and business apply to any entrepreneurial or business venture.
- How drug cartels engage in corporate social responsibility, branding, and even PR campaigns.
- Why drug cartels franchise, regulate labor, branch out online, and diversify into legal (and ubiquitous) industries.
- How an economist gets discovered wearing a GPS device to a meeting with a drug lord and lives to tell the tale!
- And much more…
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| 1:02.1 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 1:04.5 | When a Mexican cartel goes and rolls five-seven heads on, |
| 1:08.0 | so a disco floor in Michoacán, you know, it's an avoidably dramatic thing. |
| 1:12.0 | We're just not used to thinking about these organizations as being like companies. |
| 1:16.4 | My argument is just that really, if we want to defeat these guys, |
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