Gangster states : organized crime, kleptocracy and political collapse

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1. Introduction --
1.1 Secret Vices --
1.2 What is Organized Crime? --
1.3 Evolutionary Stable Strategies --
1.4 Case Study: Post-Soviet Russia --
1.5 Gangs as Primitive States --
1.6 Collapse and Regeneration --
1.7 Darwinian Political Economy --
2. What is Organized Crime? --
2.1 Formal Verses Informal Economies --
2.2 Organized Crime as Racketeering --
2.3 Descriptive Vignette: Camorra --
2.4 The Organization of Crime --
2.5 Racketeering in Prison Economies --
2.6 The Organization of a Stateless Campus Economy --
2.7 Labor Rackets --
2.8 Gambling Rackets --
2.9 Prohibition --
3. Failing Economics --
3.1 Contaminated Markets --
3.2 The Cold War in Economic Thinking --
3.3 The Road to Friedmanistan --
3.4 Experimental Vignette: The Other Invisible Hand --
4. The Evolution of Racketeering --
4.1 Behavioral Economics Meets Behavioral Ecology --
4.2 Evolutionary Stable Strategies --
4.3 Cheating and Systemic Complexity --
4.4 Racketeering as an Evolutionary Stable Strategy --
4.5 ESS Thinking: Farming and Raiding --
4.6 From Raiding to Protection Rackets --
4.7 Supply and Demand --
4.8 The Geography of Protection --
4.9 Narrative Vignette: Raiding and Trading on the Steppes --
5. Organized Crime and Kleptocracy --
5.1 From Gangs to Primitive States --
5.2 The Underworld as Prehistory --
5.3 Territoriality, Leadership, Violence --
5.4 Prehistoric Gangster-States --
5.5 Early European Gangster-States --
5.6 Mafia Branding: The Exquisite Corpse --
5.7 Narrative Vignette: Under the Cartels --
5.8 The Gangsterization of Democracy --
5.9 Scenes from a Kleptocracy --
5.10 Cuba Case Study --
5.11 Comparative Vignettes --
5.12 Hispañola --
5.13 Haiti --
5.14 Zaire --
5.15. Post-Soviet Gangster-States --
5.16 Narrative Vignette: After the USSR --
5.17 Post Script: American Exceptionalism? --
6. Things Fall Apart...and Rebuild --
6.1 Collapse as Conundrum --
6.2 Progress and Underdevelopment --
6.3 The State as Exaptation --
6.4 Secondary State Formation in Prehistory --
6.5 Collapse and Regeneration --
6.6 Grey Zones and Demapping --
6.7 Yugoslavia/Bosnia --
6.8 USSR/Moldova/Transnistria --
7. Darwinian Political Economy --
7.1 Research Redux --
7.2 Evolutionary Stable Strategies --
7.3 Darwinian Political Economy.