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Reefer madness, and other tales from the American underground by Schlosser, Eric is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Reefer madness, and other tales from the American underground about?
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 kids' 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 techonology 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.
Who reads Reefer madness, and other tales from the American underground?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Schlosser, Eric
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780618334667
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Economics, Science, Social Science
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (4,943 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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