Mafiosi can organize as well or as badly as ordinary economic actors
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- Mafiosi chose sides according to profit, not ideology or class loyalty (similarity 0.86)
- The literature’s conflicting definitions of mafiosi as middlemen, guards, and thugs defy synthesis. (similarity 0.85)
- Mafia organizational structure is not governed by any ineluctable dynamic (similarity 0.85)
- Mafia violence exceeds what rational enforcement economics would require (similarity 0.84)
- The mafia first appears in official records as an established force (similarity 0.84)
- State weakness cannot explain the mafia’s emergence (similarity 0.83)
- Mafiosi violence serves as advertisement in zero-sum honor competition (similarity 0.82)
- Contractors join the mafia mainly out of a belief it is inevitable (similarity 0.82)
- A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.82)
- Mafiosi only produce law and order where it can be monetized as protection (similarity 0.82)
- Mafia families punish members who poach fellow members’ clients. (similarity 0.81)
- Entry into the mafia requires inherited skills or psychopathy plus no better options (similarity 0.80)
- A mafioso’s word functions as a guarantor that settles debts below face value (similarity 0.80)
- Mafiosi publicly attribute members to neutral territory to mask true affiliations (similarity 0.79)
- Mafiosi are fundamentally protection entrepreneurs, not dealers in any protected good. (similarity 0.79)