Dimico, Arcangelo; Isopi, Alessia; Olsson, Ola - 2012
Since its first appearance in the late 1800s, the origins of the Sicilian mafia have remained a largely unresolved …, we develop an argument for a market structure-hypothesis, contending that mafia arose in towns where firms made unusually … others. We argue that the mafia arose out of the need to protect citrus production from predation by thieves. Using the …
