- Akerlof, G., & Yellen, J. (1994). Gang behavior, law enforcement, and community values. In H. Aaron, T. Mann, & T. Taylor (Eds.), Values and public policy, Washington: Brookings Institution. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Associated Press (2010). Mexicans march in support of craziest kingpin. Huffington Post, December 12. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Associated Press (2011). Mexico cartel’s code of conduct: don’t use drugs. CBS News, July 20. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Bailey, J., & Tayler, M. M. (2009). Evade, corrupt or confront? Organized crime and the state in Brazil and Mexico. Journal of Politics in Latin America, 1, 3–29. .
Bandiera, O. (2003). Land reform, the market for protection, and the origins of the Sicilian Mafia: theory and evidence. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 19, 218–244. .
- Beaubien, J., & Montagne, R. (2011). Mexico captures reputed leader of La Familia cartel. NPR, June 22. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Berman, E. (2000). Sect, subsidy, and sacrifice: an economist’s view of ultra-orthodox Jews. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115, 905–953. .
- Berman, E. (2009). Radical, religious, and violent: the new economics of terrorism. Cambridge: MIT Press. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Berman, E., & Laitin, D. (2008). Religion, terrorism and public goods: testing the club model. Journal of Public Economics, 92, 1942–1967. .
- Buchanan, J. (1965). An economic theory of clubs. Economica, 32, 1–14. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Cave, D. (2010). Mexicans suggest that they killed a drug leader. The New York Times, December 10. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- D’Amico, D. J. (2010). The prison in economics: private and public incarceration in ancient Greece. Public Choice, 145(3–4), 461–482. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Dell, M. (2011). Trafficking networks and the Mexican drug war. Working Paper. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Dixit, A. (2009). Governance institutions and economic activity. American Economic Review, 99(1), 3–24. .
- Drug Enforcement Administration (2009a). La Familia Michoacana fact sheet. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Drug Enforcement Administration (2009b). DEA announces largest single U.S. strike against Mexican drug cartels. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Fearon, J. D., & Laitin, D. (2003). Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war. American Political Science Review, 97(1). .
- Finnegan, W. (2010). Silver or lead. The New Yorker, May 31. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Gambetta, D. (1993). The Sicilian Mafia: the business of private protection. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Gibbs, S. (2009). Family values of Mexico drug gang. BBC News, October 22. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Grayson, G. W. (2010). La Familia drug cartel: implications for U.S.–Mexican security. Strategic Studies Institute. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Hillman, A. L., & Samet, D. (1987). Dissipation of contestable rents by a small number of contenders. Public Choice, 54(1), 63–82. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Iannaccone, L. R. (1992). Sacrifice and stigma: reducing free-riding in cults, communes, and other collectives. Journal of Political Economy, 100, 271–291. .
Kenney, M. (2007). The architecture of drug trafficking: network forms of organisation in the Colombian cocaine trade. Global Crime, 8(3), 233–259. .
- Klerks, P. (2001). The network paradigm applied to criminal organisations: theoretical nitpicking or a relevant doctrine for investigators? Recent developments in the Netherlands. Connections, 24(3), 53–65. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Knight, M. (2010). Families fear phone call from Mexico’s cartels. New York Times, July 31. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Kouri, J. (2011). La Familia Michoacana cartel battered by U.S. agents. Examiner, July 28. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Leeson, P. T. (2007). An-arrgh-chy: the law and economics of pirate organization. Journal of Political Economy, 115(6), 1049–1094. .
- Leeson, P. T. (2009a). The invisible hook: the hidden economics of pirates. Princeton: Princeton University Press. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Leeson, P. T. (2009b). The calculus of piratical consent: the myth of the myth of social contract. Public Choice, 139(3–4), 443–459. .
Leeson, P. T. (2010). Pirational choice: the economics of infamous pirate practices. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 76(3), 497–510. .
- Leeson, P. T. (2011). Trial by battle. Journal of Legal Analysis, 3(1), 341–375. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Leeson, P. T. (2012a, forthcoming). God damn: the law and economics of monastic malediction. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. .
Leeson, P. T., & Coyne, C. (2012, forthcoming). Sassywood. Journal of Comparative Economics. .
Leeson, P. T., & Rogers, D. (2012, forthcoming). Organizing crime. Supreme Court Economic Review. .
Leeson, P. T., & Skarbek, D. (2010). Criminal constitutions. Global Crime, 11(3), 279–298. .
Levitt, S. D., & Venkatesh, S. (2000). An economic analysis of a drug-selling gang’s finances. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(3), 755–789. .
- Logan, S., & Sullivan, J. P. (2009). Mexico’s ‘divine justice’. International Relations and Security Network. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Molloy, M., & Bowden, C. (2011). Confessions of a drug cartel hit man on the run. The Independent, July 11. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Munger, M. (2006). Preference modification vs. incentive manipulation as tools of terrorist recruitment: the role of culture. Public Choice, 128, 131–146. .
- Natarajan, M. (2000). Understanding the structure of drug trafficking organization: a conversational analysis. National Institute on Drug Abuse. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Olson, A. (2009). Mexico offers $2 million for top drug lords. El Paso Times, March 23. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Padgett, T. (2011). Mexico’s fearsome La Familia: eerily quiet. Time, January 31. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Reuter, P. (2009). Systemic violence in drug markets. Crime, Law and Social Change. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Rodriguez, C. M. (2009). Michoacan drug cartel offers bank services, Ovaciones reports. Bloomberg, September 15. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Skaperdas, S. (2001). The political economy of organized crime? Journal of Public Law, 20, 71–84. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Skarbek, D. (2011). Governance and prison gangs. American Political Science Review, 105, 702–716. .
- Snyder, R., & Duran-Martinez, A. (2009). Does illegality breed violence? Drug trafficking and state-sponsored protection rackets. Crime, Law and Social Change, 52, 253–273. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Sobel, R., & Osoba, B. (2009). Youth gangs as pseudo-governments: implications for violent crime. Southern Economics Journal, 75, 996–1018. .
- Stolberg, S. G. (2009). Obama takes aim at finances of three Mexican drug cartels. New York Times, April 15. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Tuckman, J. (2009). Teetotal Mexican drug cartel claims diving right to push narcotics. The Guardian, July 5. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
Varese, F. (2005). The Russian mafia: private protection in a new market economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. .
- Varese, F. (2011). Mafias on the move: how organized crime conquers new territories. Princeton: Princeton University Press. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Villarreal, A. (2002). Political competition and violence in Mexico: hierarchical social control in local patronage structures. American Sociological Review, 67, 477–498. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Volkov, V. (2000). The political economy of protection rackets in the past and the present. Social Research, 67, 709–744. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now
- Wilkinson, T. (2009). Mexico under siege: Mexico drug traffickers corrupt politics. Los Angeles Times, May 31. .
Paper not yet in RePEc: Add citation now