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CRIME: Why Mafias Develop*
By Annelise Anderson
Mafias operate in Sicily, the United States, Russia, and elsewhere. Hoover fellow Annelise Anderson examines the economics of organized crime.
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*This article is available only in the print edition of the Hoover Digest. Click here to request a free issue.
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Annelise Anderson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 1981 to 1983, Annelise Anderson was associate director for economics and government with the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. She has also advised the governments of Russia, Romania, and the Republic of Georgia on economic reform. She and Hoover fellow Dennis Bark coedited Thinking about America: The United States in the 1990s (1988), and she edited Political Money: Deregulating American Politics (2000), a collection of writings on campaign finance reform. Her most recent book is Reagan, in His Own Hand (2001), which she coedited with Hoover fellows Martin Anderson and Kiron Skinner. M. Anderson, Skinner, and she have another book forthcoming, Reagan: A Portrait in Letters. She is also the author of Free BSD: An Open Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer (2001). The holder of Ph.D. in business administration from Columbia University, she has been a Hoover fellow since 1983.
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