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Reefer Madness
by Eric Schlosser
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618446702
- ISBN 13
- 9780618446704
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Reefer Madness not to be confused with the 1936 comedic hit, this is more of a hard in-depth look- nice copy in great shape has a minimal amount of edgware, unmarked, just a small crease on its glossy back cover, a few last pages - just good condition. America's black market is much larger than we realize, affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video,pay our kids' nannies in cash-underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays — pot, porn, and illegal immigrants — Eric Schlosser shows how the black market has burgeoned over the past several decades.Compelling parallels between underground and overground: tycoons & gangsters rise & fall,new technology shapes a market,government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well & mainstream ones, big business learns — and profits — from the underground. Reefer Madness is a powerful investigation that illuminates the shadow economy it's culture that casts that shadow.- Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market A Mariner book Edition 001 Series Author Eric Schlosser Edition 1st Mariner paperback later printing 2004, reprint Paperback- Publisher Houghton Mifflin,-book design Robert Overholtz- 2004 ISBN 0618446702, 9780618446704 336 pages Subjects- Business & Economics / underground economies trickle-down effect / Social Science / Popular Culture--Ruth Reaser LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City - ERIC SCHLOSSER is the author of The New York Times bestsellers Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation.- see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't -Expedited Shipping available-by request/ price adjust-..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill your order, Los Angeles I carefully pack your book,hop on my Vespa visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system.. your books wrapped,not co-mingled,you get the copy you were viewing. Carefully packed...Gift just let me know.. - Reefer Madness 4117 LB4 AA Sh
Synopsis
In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants. The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent -- perhaps more -- of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise. Eric Schlosser charts this growth, and finds its roots in the nexus of ingenuity, greed, idealism, and hypocrisy that is American culture. He reveals the fascinating workings of the shadow economy by focusing on marijuana, one of the nation's largest cash crops; pornography, whose greatest beneficiaries include Fortune 100 companies; and illegal migrant workers, whose lot often resembles that of medieval serfs. All three industries show how the black market has burgeoned over the past three decades, as America's reckless faith in the free market has combined with a deep-seated puritanism to create situations both preposterous and tragic. Through pot, porn, and migrants, Schlosser traces compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, how big business learns -- and profits -- from the underground. With intrepid reportage, rich history, and incisive argument, Schlosser illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.
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- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4117
- Title
- Reefer Madness
- Author
- Eric Schlosser
- Illustrator
- book design Robert Overholtz
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Mariner paperbac
- ISBN 10
- 0618446702
- ISBN 13
- 9780618446704
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2004-04-01
- Keywords
- Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market A Mariner book Edition 001 Series Author Eric Schlosser Edition 1st Mariner paperback later printing 2004, reprint Paperback- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, 2004 ISBN 0618446702, 978061
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