I read The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson some years ago and I found a recommendation online that this book was similar.

The section on prison gang taxation is particularly interesting.


Read part of this -- mind blowing as fuck.   How did you run across it?

elvismercury

The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek.  It discusses decentralised governance in its purest form!

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Taft

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The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek.  It discusses decentralised governance in its purest form!