The scoop on the News Masthead Ad rates Ten minutes before the class is to begin, a scattering of students discuss the upcoming assignments. Another nods in agreement, and they trade ideas about information sources and angles of research. Professor Tom Naylor looks wiry and youthful, despite being a veteran of twenty-six years at McGill. For an hour and a half the audience remains focussed on the figure at the front of the class, who gestures with one arm while resting the other on the projector.
Students love to hear stories about drug dealers and gangsters.
Whether you hate these people and want to put them in jail, or decide to model your life after them, you have to admire them for doing their jobs so well. And their impact on society can be enormous. The importance of the underground economy cannot be measured in its size, Naylor argues. You can't say how big it is because if it's working well, you can't see it. You're in an epistemological quandary.