Illegality prevents mafia reputation from detaching from particular owners, blocking firm expansion
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- Illegality prevents credit markets, forcing illegal firms to stay small (similarity 0.85)
- The mafia first appears in official records as an established force (similarity 0.85)
- Mafia organizational structure is not governed by any ineluctable dynamic (similarity 0.84)
- Mafia violence exceeds what rational enforcement economics would require (similarity 0.83)
- Illegality blocks credit markets, preventing separation of ownership and management (similarity 0.82)
- Entry into the mafia requires inherited skills or psychopathy plus no better options (similarity 0.82)
- Mafia families punish members who poach fellow members’ clients. (similarity 0.82)
- Contractors join the mafia mainly out of a belief it is inevitable (similarity 0.81)
- State weakness cannot explain the mafia’s emergence (similarity 0.81)
- Client concentration and violent competition make mafia protection contracts fragile. (similarity 0.81)
- Mafia affiliation is tied to residence, not portable status or letters. (similarity 0.81)
- Distrust has multiple settlements, so an extra factor explains mafia origin (similarity 0.81)
- Mafia territory is jurisdiction-like but does not coincide with official boundaries (similarity 0.80)
- Mafia reputation operates as a shared trademark guaranteeing protection quality. (similarity 0.80)
- The mafia converts distrust into profit by enforcing resource monopolies (similarity 0.79)