num_pages: 352
description: America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kid's nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and its far-reaching influence on our society. Exposing three American mainstays — pot, porn, and illegal immigrants — Eric Schlosser shows how the black market has burgeoned over the past several decades. He also draws compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, and how big business learns — and profits — from the underground. Reefer Madness is a powerful investigation that illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.(back cover)
language: English
title: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
titlecomplete: Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
characters: Reuben Sturman
genres: Politics, Nonfiction, Cultural, Economics, Crime, Social Science, Sociology, True Crime, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 6304
publisher: Mariner Books