Mises Daily
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Robert P. Murphy
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The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection , by Diego Gambetta [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), vi + 335 pages] Diego Gambetta’s book is an excellent work of scholarship that seeks to apply economic theory to the Sicilian mafia. In addition to its formal analysis, the book explains the historical origins of the mafia, and