If Narconomics were a school textbook, the course description might be something like this:

The course provides students with comprehensive skills to understand the operations of a drug organization at all levels. After the course, the student will understand the stages of drug production, smuggling, and distribution. The student will be able to compare labor costs and production risks in different countries. After the course, the student will also have the skills to understand when it’s worth trying to bribe authorities and when to threaten them, or when to relocate operations elsewhere. The student will understand the basic functions of a drug organization’s sales, marketing, and HR departments and will be able to apply them, for example, by tattooing visible logos on all gang members to reduce employee turnover. There are no prerequisites for the course. See also: Levitt & Dubner: Freakonomics.

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