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My experience of them is very limited, but every exposure leaves me with a very bad taste in my mouth. Incredibly sketchy characters who seem to start at 10x used car salesman as a baseline.
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Nikos Passas’ collection of essays on transnational financial crime has several good essays that touch on it. The book is expensive so I would get it off libgen, which you can count as research.
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From my experience sleaziness is predetermined 1. high risk trade -> must extract highest reward 2. No repeat purchase -> no feedback loop -> free cheating 3. Asymmetrical information and skills -> cheat enablers
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Extreme Economies by Richard Davies has interesting insights on how these systems emerge. Another but in a different way is Anarchy Unbound by Peter Leeson
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