Guns, Girls, Gambling, Ganja: Thailand's Illegal Economy and Public Policy History of Religious from eleventh-century Pagan to the

from eleventh-century Pagan to the present

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Guns, Girls, Gambling, Ganja: Thailand's Illegal Economy and Public Policy History of Religious from eleventh-century Pagan to theBy Pasuk Phongpaichit, Sungsidh Piriyarangsan and Nualnoi Treerat Gambling, prostitution, drugs, arms trading, oil smuggling, and trafficking in peoplethese six illegal businesses are large and getting larger. They distort the economy and victimize people. They are increasingly linked together through networks of protection and organized crime. They help to fund Thailands corrosive money politics and to sustain corruption in the police. In this sequel