The Dark Side of Life: Globalisation and International Crime

Abstract

Economic globalization is a more complex concept than terms such as 'transnational corporations' and 'international finance' would immediately suggest. There is a licit global economy, but there is also an illicit global economy. The first is capitalist, the second is criminal. Moral critiques of capitalism aside, it is important to distinguish between the lawful and the unlawful, the licit and the illicit, because these differences have enormous consequences in the real world of wealth and power, especially for the emerging governance of the global economy.