Trade in movable produce lets protection extend to cities and multiple customers

Evidence

When property rights concern not land but produce—which must be transported, processed, and sold in urban markets—protection takes on different implications. It allows the protector to travel and forge bonds which extend as far as the cities. Local bonds also become more extensive since these operations provide each protector with more than one customer at a time. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 237

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism connects directly to the reader’s reading purpose: how a private protection market expands along produce-trade routes rather than staying local.