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The Economic Impact of Andean Cocaine Traffic on Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robert Grosse
Robert Grosse*
Affiliation:
Institute at the University of Miami
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This study is intended to establish a framework for analyzing the economic impact of narcotraffic between Colombia, where most of the world's cocaine is refined, and the State of Florida, which is the primary area of entry for Andean cocaine into the United States. The purpose of the study is to analyze the economic costs and benefits of this activity to Florida, as an example that could be extended in both directions — to Colombia and to the entire United States—if additional data were to become available. Only the trade in cocaine is examined, though additional traffic in marijuana does take place and, in some cases, the data are not disaggregated for each drug. Only the economic impact is studied, though the trade obviously impacts the social and political realms as well. Because the tools of analysis are quite different among the disciplines, and because the economic issues need to be sorted out in any discussion of the overall impact of the cocaine trade, only economic issues are treated here.

Type
The Drug Trade Revisited
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 137 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1990

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